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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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Coder Gals

Feb 26 '20

DebConf 2021 in Kosovo

#debian #opensource #debconf

2 min read

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Feb 26 '20

How to install Matomo on Ubuntu 18.04

#webdev #analytics #ubuntu #opensource

4 min read

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Andreas

Feb 19 '20

22 Shout-Outs to Open Source and Infinite Creativity

#opensource #vue #react #angular

6 min read

anis dabdi

Feb 25 '20

10 helpful flags to use with git log command.

#git #vcs #opensource #github

4 min read

Ari V for Embark Studios

Feb 24 '20

Inside Rust at Embark 🦀

#rust #opensource #gamedev

6 min read

Feb 25 '20

What's new in Bagisto 1.0.0?

#laravel #laravelecommerce #bagisto #opensource

1 min read

Feb 25 '20

How open-source developers can earn income each time their microservices are used by others

#opensource #blockchain #javascript #microservices

2 min read

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Feb 25 '20

Buttono, a flexible Sass mixin for creating BEM-style buttons.

#css #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Grant McConnaughey

Feb 25 '20

Automate Python code quality checking for free with GitHub Actions, Flake8, and Lintly

#python #productivity #opensource #codequality

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 24 '20

AWS open source news and updates #8

#aws #opensource

7 min read

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Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Feb 24 '20

Open Source Creator Series, Part 6: How to Measure Community Building

#opensource #community #bootstrap

6 min read

Ant Design

Feb 24 '20

Introduce AntV: a new player in data visualization

#visualization #d3 #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Tman

Feb 24 '20

Where do Open Source developers get their motivation to keep developing?

#opensource

1 min read

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Feb 24 '20

Open source project

#github #code #opensource #severless

1 min read

Lukasz Gornicki

Feb 24 '20

Running Git in JavaScript and process of picking a proper open-source project

#javascript #git #node #opensource

5 min read

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