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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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yas

Apr 28 '20

Visualisation tool for sorting algorithms.

#showdev #beginners #opensource #react

2 min read

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May 1 '20

Traduzindo as docs do Gatsby em 4 passos

#opensource #gatsby #tutorial #github

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#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

1 min read

Dan Miller

Apr 28 '20

How to keep your Javascript projects safe

#javascript #security #opensource

8 min read

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Apr 30 '20

Android Libraries every Android Developer should know about

#android #library #opensource #kotlin

2 min read

Apr 28 '20

Open Source: The Art of the Issue

#opensource #productivity #beginners #github

5 min read

Apr 28 '20

Aaron Patterson Joins Shopify

#news #rails #ruby #opensource

1 min read

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Raphaël Pinson for Camptocamp Infrastructure Solutions

Apr 30 '20

Backup your Container Data

#showdev #opensource #backup #kubernetes

3 min read

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Ali Abbas

Apr 29 '20

🚀 Dictionary API built using Serverless Framework and AWS Lambda Functions

#javascript #opensource #aws #productivity

1 min read

Apr 29 '20

Connecting To RabbitMQ In Golang

#go #opensource #programming #tutorial

4 min read

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Apr 29 '20

Received; Twilio Hackathon submission

#showdev #twiliohackathon #vue #opensource

3 min read

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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Apr 29 '20

Marketplace update: improved design & loading time of Themesberg, new partnerships and a roadmap for future features

#opensource #productivity #design #webdev

4 min read

Maximo Martinez Soria

Apr 29 '20

Mastering Git

#git #github #opensource

11 min read

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Apr 29 '20

Make it fullscreen!

#showdev #react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Raphaël Pinson for Camptocamp Infrastructure Solutions

Apr 29 '20

Cleaning up Puppet Code

#puppet #devops #codequality #opensource

4 min read

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