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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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Aug 31 '18

How to start to contribute to open source (properly)? 🤔 Step 1

#opensource #timemanagement #programming

1 min read

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Erlend Sogge Heggen

Jun 17 '20

Open Source as a Force For Good

#opensource #licensing

5 min read

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Jul 31 '20

An easier way into open source!

#showdev #opensource #github #javascript

1 min read

Juan Funez

Jul 18 '20

contributed code to the 2020 GitHub Archive Program

#github #code #opensource #floss

1 min read

Simon O. Injiri

Jun 27 '20

simple ubuntu hacks

#ubuntu #linux #opensource

1 min read

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Mani Sai Prasad

Aug 19 '20

Ghost on Heroku

#writing #opensource #database

2 min read

Dave Woestenborghs

Aug 17 '20

Is Umbraco really a tourist trap ? My point of view.

#umbraco #opensource #csharp

4 min read

May 20 '20

Contributing to the Open Source Community for the first time

#showdev #octograd2020 #devgrad2020 #opensource

2 min read

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Dec 27 '18

NodeJS vs ASP.NET (core)

#opensource #aspnetcore #node #javascript

1 min read

kelseyevans for Datawire

Oct 17 '17

Connect to a Remote Kubernetes Cluster with Telepresence

#opensource #programming #kubernetes

2 min read

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Aug 2 '20

Github's Awesome Repository Traffic Analytics

#todayilearned #opensource #github #tutorial

2 min read

Quinn Lashinsky

Jun 12 '20

Making My First Open Source Contribution

#showdev #opensource #listings

4 min read

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Paul Chris Luke

Jul 14 '20

I run an opensource company semi-successfully. Here are a few answers to questions I get a lot.

#opensource #vue #net #fooddelivery

1 min read

Jul 15 '20

NPM Primer: Publishing your first npm package

#npm #javascript #node #opensource

3 min read

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Jun 8 '20

Another Golang Framework - Oscrud

#showdev #go #opensource

6 min read

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