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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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Akanksha Raghav

Sep 20 '20

GitHub CLI 1.0

#github #git #opensource

1 min read

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Gitlab Meetup Community

Sep 19 '20

Knowing Helm Charts

#opensource #helmcharts #kubernetes #devops

2 min read

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Sep 18 '20

Introducing react-chrono - A flexible Timeline component for React

#react #typescript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

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Sep 15 '20

How I tanked my MLH Fellowship interview and still got in

#opensource #webdev #javascript #typescript

6 min read

Nitin

Sep 19 '20

GitHub CLI 1.0 is now available

#github #git #opensource

2 min read

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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 19 '20

What is Bootstrap CDN?

#bootstrap #cdn #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

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Sep 19 '20

GoogletransX: Free unlimited translation

#go #webdev #opensource #translate

1 min read

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Sep 16 '20

Build a Pomodoro clock using Github actions!

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Aug 30 '20

Open Source Contribution for beginners 🔥

#opensource #github #beginners #webdev

8 min read

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Sep 18 '20

Appsmith $1000 Bug Bounty Program

#news #githunt #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Sep 18 '20

Habbo: Avatar Rendering Basics

#habbo #opensource #games #javascript

6 min read

user

Sep 18 '20

Why you should learn Git

#git #github #codenewbie #opensource

2 min read

Johannes Lichtenberger

Sep 18 '20

Help to build an evolutionary, accumulate-only Database System

#hacktoberfest #opensource #database

1 min read

Sep 18 '20

Getting started in Open Source development

#opensource

1 min read

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Abhishek Sisodiya

Sep 18 '20

Get GitHub CLI in WSL2

#github #opensource #productivity #wsl

1 min read

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