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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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GaneshMani

Sep 3 '19

I am Open-sourcing My Startup Idea

#showdev #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Peter Thaleikis 🍪

Sep 6 '19

Neat Side Projects No. 5

#privacy #seo #opensource #extensions

4 min read

TechBos😎 for getd.io/ - Postman without native apps

Sep 6 '19

🆘 Open sourcing getd.io

#discuss #webdev #opensource #help

3 min read

Shubheksha Jalan

Oct 11 '17

How to find your first open source bug to fix

#lifelessons #webdev #opensource #programming

6 min read

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Ben Halpern for Reactive Conference

Sep 21 '16

How Igor Minar and the AngularJS Team Build Software

#angular #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Robbie Antenesse

Sep 7 '19

Should I Use "Popular" Frameworks If I Prefer Something Else?

#javascript #react #opensource #choo

2 min read

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Aug 30 '19

CopyBar: © for collaboration

#opensource #development #programming

2 min read

Greg Lind for Buildly

Sep 4 '19

Cloud Native Patterns

#cloudnative #opensource

3 min read

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Aug 31 '19

Collaborative coding with GitHub/GitLab

#git #github #gitlab #opensource

1 min read

Sep 1 '19

A distributed revenue sharing model for open source sponsorships

#discuss #github #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Aug 28 '19

Getting started with a new codebase

#beginners #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Aug 28 '19

How Can I Land A Software Job If I Have No Experience

#softskills #portfolio #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Brandon Martinez

Sep 14 '16

Avoid the Code Crawl by Reading Tests

#tdd #tests #opensource #documentation

4 min read

Shubheksha Jalan

Sep 11 '16

A Beginner's Very Bumpy Journey Through The World of OpenÂ Source

#opensource #beginners #programming #learningtocode

7 min read

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Abel

Aug 27 '19

“As a software engineer, your main contribution to the project isn’t the code that you write”

#software #productivity #opensource #code

3 min read

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