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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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Dane Hillard for ITHAKA

Jun 26 '19

Our Open Source Software in the Wild

#softwaredevelopment #opensource #webdev #python

3 min read

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David Berlin for Stackbit

Jun 17 '19

Migrating From Medium - A Developer's Guide

#opensource #projectbenatar #medium #rss

4 min read

Ido Shamun

Jun 18 '19

What makes an open source project awesome?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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Jun 17 '19

Creating a covert channel over the Telegram

#showdev #security #telegram #opensource

7 min read

Jun 14 '19

Use the Source Luke! How to Write Clean Code for Interviews

#opensource #beginners #computerscience

2 min read

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Kai Oswald

Jun 12 '19

Easily create 2-state, SVG-powered transitions with vue

#showdev #vue #opensource

1 min read

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Daybrush (Younkue Choi)

Jun 12 '19

Introducing Scene.js Library to Create Timeline-Based Animation

#react #css #javascript #opensource

1 min read

roookeee

Jun 7 '19

abandon your factories - data conversion with datus

#java #functional #opensource

3 min read

Yavuz

Jun 4 '19

Fixing Open Source Sustainability Through Tech Recruiting

#opensource #career

1 min read

Soumya Roy

May 28 '19

11 Top Open-Source Tools for Web and Android Developers in 2019

#opensource #androidtools #webdev #developertools

8 min read

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Jun 1 '19

I’m joining Microsoft

#opensource #microsoft #cloud #angular

2 min read

Rafael E. Poveda

Jun 2 '19

Contributing to open source...

#react #opensource

4 min read

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May 29 '19

Quiz Application for Web Developers

#showdev #opensource #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Stafford Williams

May 27 '19

Docker containers aren't just for long running tasks

#showdev #docker #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mikoyoarts

May 24 '19

Getting Started with PHP for WEB

#php #beginners #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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