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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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Alexander Omorokunwa

Jul 20 '19

Automating Stuffs: Introduction to Linux Shell Scripting

#opensource #howto #linux #ubuntu

3 min read

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lucas kardonski

May 29 '19

Generate serverless HTML forms in an instant

#webdev #opensource #javascript #productivity

3 min read

Aaron Powell for Microsoft Azure

May 29 '19

Home Grown IoT - Prologue

#showdev #fsharp #iot #opensource

4 min read

Liz Lam

May 29 '19

My First 3 Contributions to Open Source

#opensource

3 min read

Adam Reidelbach

May 29 '19

Open Source Git Workflow (an overview)

#git #beginners #opensource

4 min read

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Laura Lindeman for Salesforce Engineering

May 29 '19

6 Ways We Get Things Done with Python

#python #machinelearning #opensource #security

3 min read

Docsie.io

May 29 '19

Tourguide.js - A simple, lightweight, clean and small library for creating guided product tours for your web app.

#opensource #github #javascript

1 min read

Shreyas Chaudhari for Cube

May 28 '19

Test Automation Analytics using Cube.js

#tutorial #webdev #testing #opensource

5 min read

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May 27 '19

OMFG... Dependabot is free now. Close your security vulnerabilities faster than ever!

#javascript #node #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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May 21 '19

What does react-beautiful-dnd cost to maintain?

#opensource #javascript #react #webdev

8 min read

Bachi for Auth0

May 27 '19

Kubernetes Tutorial: Managing TLS Certificates with Ambassador

#opensource #docker #programming

1 min read

Aaron Powell for Microsoft Azure

May 27 '19

Extending Saturn to support Basic Authentication

#showdev #fsharp #webdev #opensource

5 min read

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Syed Faraaz Ahmad

May 25 '19

Are we giving GitHub too much control?

#github #opensource #centralisation #question

1 min read

Shraddha Agrawal

May 25 '19

What, Why and How: Outreachy 101

#outreachy #gsoc #summerofcode #opensource

6 min read

May 25 '19

3 questions I have about developing open source libraries

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

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