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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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#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

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Paolo

May 7 '20

Help me build a open source linear algebra library in Javascript

#help #opensource #mathematics

1 min read

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Kristian Freeman for Bytesized Code

May 7 '20

Everything GitHub announced at Satellite 2020 in 15 minutes [video]

#techtalks #github #opensource

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Stephen Ou

May 7 '20

Fruition - free, open source toolkit for pretty URL slugs & custom domains for Notion

#productivity #opensource #notion #sideprojects

1 min read

May 6 '20

how we can prevent browsers from killing your RAM 🛑

#browsers #webdev #opensource #firefox

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Rafael Corrêa Gomes

May 5 '20

Check quickly the TTFB via terminal

#opensource #beginners #webdev #tutorial

2 min read

May 7 '20

Contributing to an Open Source Project

#webdev #opensource #github

4 min read

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May 6 '20

Networking and Open Source: The What and the Why 👐

#opensource #career #productivity #github

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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Apr 2 '20

Announcing the Twilio Hackathon on DEV

#announcement #twiliohackathon #twilio #opensource

4 min read

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Rei Allen Ramos

May 1 '20

Free illustrations for your next project

#design #frontend #opensource

1 min read

Thomas P. Fuller for Coherent Logic Limited

May 5 '20

Awesome Backlinks & SEO Workshops

#showdev #opensource

2 min read

Swastik Baranwal

May 5 '20

Box CLI Maker 📦: Highly Customized Terminal Box Creator

#showdev #go #productivity #opensource

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May 5 '20

How to Build a Modal in Vue.Js

#vue #javascript #opensource #webdev

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#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

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AD

Apr 30 '20

Highly Scalable Codebase Architecture

#javascript #node #opensource #graphql

2 min read

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