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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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Sm0ke

Aug 23 '20

Free React Dashboard - Material Dashboard Design

#react #dashboards #opensource #webdev

3 min read

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Ritvij Kumar Sharma

Aug 28 '20

Open Source chronicles - First week's adventure

#opensource #github #git

3 min read

a little Fe2O3.nH2O-y

Aug 27 '20

Fundamentals of Vulnerability Management with Open Source Tools

#vulnerabilitymanagement #security #opensource

8 min read

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Aug 26 '20

How to DEV: Tips I've found in Forem repository

#meta #writing #opensource

3 min read

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Aug 27 '20

Tagger- AWS tagging tool

#aws #opensource #cloud #devops

2 min read

Bryan Ollendyke

Aug 27 '20

The web is eating itself through web components, an example

#webcomponents #midi #opensource

1 min read

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Modern Web for Modern Web

Aug 27 '20

Introducing: Modern Web

#javascript #opensource #modernweb

7 min read

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Prathamesh Sahasrabhojane ✔️

Aug 26 '20

GSoC Final Code Submission

#gsoc #opensource #github

3 min read

Aug 26 '20

Getting into OpenSource

#discuss #opensource #showdev #reactnative

1 min read

Cass Fultz for Smallstep

Aug 21 '20

If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong | Episode 2: Certificates improve usability, operability, & security

#devops #security #opensource #sre

6 min read

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EGEMEN

Aug 26 '20

Blurr - Easy Blur and Tools Library

#bitmap #blur #android #opensource

2 min read

Rahul Jain

Aug 26 '20

How to start and promote your open-source project?

#opensource #webdev #career

2 min read

abser

Aug 26 '20

Show Our Opensource Contributions on ObserveableHQ or any Website.

#opensource #observeablehq #github

2 min read

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Aug 24 '20

Basic git commands

#git #github #opensource #beginners

2 min read

SubhamChoudhary

Aug 25 '20

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#opensource #react #webdev #python

1 min read

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