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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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Jul 24 '20

Mozilla Open Source Support Grant — Helping Make Open Source Sustainable

#opensource

4 min read

Jul 24 '20

Show your latest Medium article in GitHub Readme

#showdev #github #opensource #javascript

1 min read

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Denis Valášek

Jul 24 '20

Solving missing System Entities in Actions Builder: Community Types!

#actionsbuilder #actionsongoogle #googleassistant #opensource

1 min read

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Jul 23 '20

Make your fork up-to-date with the master using a GitHub App. 🤖

#github #git #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 22 '20

Podcast - open source builders: Justin Garrison

#opensource #aws

3 min read

Jul 23 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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Gavin for New Relic

Jul 22 '20

New Relic's instrumentation is now open source

#observability #opensource #opentelemetry #newrelic

2 min read

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Jul 20 '20

Your code to the future civilization - GitHub Archival Program

#news #github #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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Jul 22 '20

Add a rich text editor to your app: react-draft-wysiwyg

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

3 min read

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Jul 22 '20

sci-hub.tw wrapper - desearch

#showdev #go #opensource #research

1 min read

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Matheus Cardoso

Jul 21 '20

Streamoji - Custom Emoji Library for iOS UITextView

#ios #beginners #opensource #swift

2 min read

Joe Kutner for Heroku

Aug 3 '20

Ground Control to Major TOML: Why Buildpacks Use a Most Peculiar Format

#devops #opensource #buildpacks #cloudnative

3 min read

Saurabh Daware 🌻

Jul 4 '20

A Guide for Contributing to Any Open Source JavaScript Project Ever 💛

#opensource #javascript

6 min read

Jul 22 '20

How to use multiple GitHub accounts on single machine

#github #git #opensource #githunt

1 min read

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Benoît Tallandier

Jul 22 '20

Build a strong community 💪

#opensource #community #saas

4 min read

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