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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

submission guidelines

UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Dec 6 '16

So you wanna open source a project, eh?

#opensource #beginners

4 min read

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Nov 18 '19

From Examples to an API description in 2 Minutes

#showdev #opensource

3 min read

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MyVPN

Nov 19 '19

MyVPN.RUN - Desktop application for creating a personal VPN server. L2TP, PPTP, OpenVPN.

#anonymous #vpn #opensource #javascript

1 min read

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Wade

Nov 18 '19

2020 ClassicPress Management Committee Elections

#wordpress #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

Ewerton Jordão

Nov 17 '19

PowerShell Core | Azure | Blob Storage

#opensource #azure #powershell

2 min read

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Shad Mirza

Nov 14 '19

Vue.js and Getting Started with Open Source ft. Rahul Kadyan

#opensource #vue #beginners #javascript

3 min read

Oct 25 '19

Maintaining an open source gem in the Hacktoberfest

#ruby #community #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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Nov 11 '19

My 2019 Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Nov 10 '19

Using Git the First Time

#github #opensource #git

2 min read

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Nov 5 '19

Implementing the Prefetch Pattern in React Concurrent Mode

#react #javascript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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Kepler Sticka-Jones

Nov 10 '19

Carraway: A Tool to Simplify Gatsby

#gatsby #webdev #writing #opensource

3 min read

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Nov 6 '19

Steps for Contributing to Projects on Github

#git #github #beginners #opensource

4 min read

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Boris Mann for Fission

Nov 6 '19

Open Source Licensing Evolution at Diffusion 2019

#diffusion #opensource #licensing

1 min read

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leojpod

Nov 5 '19

Hacktober: From Exercism to elm-pages

#hacktoberfest #exercism #elm #opensource

3 min read

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Shubheksha Jalan

Sep 20 '17

How to attract new contributors to your open source project

#tech #learningtocode #programming #opensource

4 min read

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