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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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Sep 5 '18

Why Open Source is Invaluable to the Development and Testing Community

#opensource

4 min read

Ido Shamun for Daily

Sep 5 '18

Most Popular Development Posts Of The Week (05 September 2018)

#frontend #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Aug 29 '18

Italian Hacker Camp 2018 – I was there

#mozilla #opensource #hacking #event

1 min read

Aug 23 '18

Workflow Wednesday - Spectacle

#productivity #workflow #tools #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for Change the way you log with LogChimp 🐵

Yashu Mittal for LogChimp

Aug 20 '18

Change the way you log with LogChimp 🐵

#changelog #productupdates #opensource #logchimp

1 min read

Matteo Joliveau

Aug 13 '18

I built a custom CMS because why not

#showdev #ruby #rails #opensource

4 min read

Aug 16 '18

Going Into Open-Source Projects as A Way to Brush Up

#discuss #opensource #learning

1 min read

Aug 8 '18

Why I started contributing to Docker

#docker #opensource #career

1 min read

L. Berger

Aug 8 '18

Why "babeling"-up harms the open source community

#opensource

3 min read

Aug 2 '18

Blog post: Contributing to a new project – a bit like starting a new job

#opensource #certbot #comfortzone #eff

1 min read

Derek Rosenzweig

Jul 24 '18

Rule-Based HTML Form Validation with Formation

#javascript #forms #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Alan Barr

Jul 19 '18

Creating a Plugin for Netflix Security Monkey

#softwaredevelopment #howto #python #opensource

4 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Jul 13 '18

3 tools for your Linux shell that can change your life

#linux #opensource

1 min read

Vlad V.

Jul 12 '18

How to launch Containerum platform in 5 minutes

#kubernetes #containerization #opensource

3 min read

Khoa Pham

Jul 2 '18

Learning from good open source projects

#ios #opensource #react

2 min read

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