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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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Deepanshu Udhwani

Jul 5 '20

How to grab Open Source Internships

#opensource #career #webdev

1 min read

Sakshat

Jul 9 '20

Open Source internships

#career #opensource

5 min read

Havoc Pennington for Tidelift

Jul 9 '20

If your open source dependencies are a mess, we’ve got you. Introducing catalogs.

#news #opensource #devops #security

6 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Jun 25 '20

Announcing: The Grant For The Web x DEV Hackathon Winners!

#gftwhackathon #opensource #meta #webmonetization

3 min read

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Jul 9 '20

Behind Open Source projects there are people

#opensource #career

2 min read

Igor Ilic

Jul 9 '20

I open sourced my first android application

#showdev #android #opensource #kotlin

5 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Jun 26 '20

License, what did I just do to my software?

#discuss #opensource #withme

1 min read

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icncsx

Jul 8 '20

Expanding the idea of open source contribution

#opensource #codenewbie #tutorial #100daysofcode

2 min read

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Jul 1 '20

Open Source Sustainability

#opensource #opencollective #codefund #scarf

1 min read

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Ignat Korchagin

Jul 8 '20

Sandboxing in Linux with zero lines of code

#linux #security #sandbox #opensource

20 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 6 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 27

#opensource #aws

14 min read

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Lyn Muldrow for DigitalOcean

Jul 3 '20

How To Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 20.04

#linux #tutorial #opensource #jenkins

5 min read

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Jason C. McDonald

Jul 6 '20

5 Ways to Retain Open Source Contributors

#opensource #culture #projectmanagement

5 min read

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Jul 7 '20

GraphQL better than REST?

#todayilearned #graphql #opensource #beginners

2 min read

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Jul 7 '20

Delta Compression: A practical guide to diff algorithms and delta file formats

#javascript #database #computerscience #opensource

12 min read

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