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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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Jaya Krishna Namburu

Aug 24 '19

Why we need to contribute to open-source and how we can do it

#opensource #packages #maintainers

5 min read

Aug 22 '19

What would be your favorite free open source?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Jake Faris

Aug 21 '19

Dotenvious, or, my first foray into Open Source

#ruby #opensource

5 min read

Helad

Aug 5 '19

What would make you a happier developer?

#opensource #github #githunt #codequality

1 min read

Jul 25 '19

First commits to world-spanning projects, part 1

#android #contribute #opensource #firefox

3 min read

Henry

Jul 20 '19

The Babel Podcast

#podcast #opensource #babel

1 min read

Thomas Hunter II

Jul 15 '19

Introducing Osgood

#javascript #opensource #node #security

4 min read

Glenn Carremans

Jul 16 '19

Contributing to improve yourself

#firstyearincode #beginners #opensource #learning

6 min read

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Jul 15 '19

Introducing Agola: CI/CD redefined

#opensource #continuousdelivery #distributed #go

5 min read

Jul 12 '19

Open source projects you would like to hear about

#opensource #javascript #podcast

1 min read

Jul 12 '19

The Problem with Free & Open Source Software

#freesoftware #freedom #opensource #foss

4 min read

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Brandon Satrom for Particle

Jul 8 '19

Learn about mesh networking by building this swarm of Particle-powered robots

#showdev #tutorial #opensource

12 min read

Brian Neville-O'Neill

Jul 8 '19

The latest npm breach…or is it?

#opensource #javascript #security #node

8 min read

Cover image for You get stuck with a package - what do you do?

Jul 6 '19

You get stuck with a package - what do you do?

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

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Kyle Lobo

Jul 1 '19

GitHub README templates & tips on writing high-quality documentation

#writing #opensource #tutorial #beginners

1 min read

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