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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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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Sep 1 '20

Preptember — Start Getting Ready for Hacktoberfest This Month!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

4 min read

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manish srivastava

Sep 7 '20

Create your own Operating Systems: From 0 to 1

#linux #devops #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Johannes Lichtenberger

Sep 8 '20

Best way to be able to spend more time on an Open Source project?

#discuss #help #opensource

1 min read

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Shraddha Agrawal

Sep 9 '20

Improving Teuthology Scheduling: GSoC 2020 with Ceph Foundation

#opensource #gsoc #googlesummerofcode

9 min read

Sep 8 '20

How Open Source has fueled Software Industry - Discussion

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Supabase for Supabase

Sep 7 '20

Supabase: six months of building.

#postgres #javascript #typescript #opensource

2 min read

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Prafulla Raichurkar

Sep 7 '20

Express Autodocs - A GitHub Action to generate documentation (Submission)

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 7 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 34

#aws #opensource

16 min read

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Fady Nabil

Sep 7 '20

MLH powered by Github

#github #mlh #fellowship #opensource

1 min read

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Eze Olea Figueroa

Sep 7 '20

TBlogs - Read blogs in your terminal

#showdev #go #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 6 '20

Some interesting Javascript libraries for image processing and computer vision.

#javascript #opensource #webdev #development

5 min read

Sep 6 '20

Top 5 Open-Source Transfer Learning Machine Learning Projects

#machinelearning #python #computerscience #opensource

1 min read

nicolas63

Sep 6 '20

Generate your asp.net core application with JHipster.NET

#csharp #dotnet #jhipster #opensource

2 min read

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Ahmed Gulab Khan

Sep 5 '20

What even is GitHub Codespaces?

#codespaces #github #opensource #vscode

2 min read

Armedi

Sep 11 '20

Tailwind CSS, dan Bagaimana Menggunakannya dengan create-react-app

#tailwindcss #opensource #react

3 min read

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