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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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Saurabh Daware 🌻

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#yearinreview #mentalhealth #career #opensource

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#ptbr #data #design #opensource

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JP

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I would like to start contributing to Open Source, can you help me to start?

#help #opensource

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Thomas De Moor for X-Team

Feb 4 '20

An Introduction to JAMstack

#code #javascript #programming #opensource

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Uzay-G

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#webdev #opensource #productivity

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manish srivastava

Dec 24 '19

Are you tired of Bootstrap? Get started with Metro 4: Free & Opensource

#css #javascript #opensource

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Sm0ke

Dec 20 '19

Dark Admin Dashboard - Open-Source and Free

#dashboards #opensource #appseed

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Sebastián Ramírez

Dec 23 '19

How to start contributing to open source

#opensource #tutorial

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What is a Developer Advocate anyway?

#devrel #opensource #software

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Creating a new programming language

#showdev #discuss #opensource

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Helad

Dec 19 '19

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#opensource

7 min read

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#fuchsia #linux #opensource

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Dec 21 '19

Docker - Dev, Debug, Deploy

#docker #methodology #devops #opensource

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10+ Best free admin dashboard templates for your next project

#dashboards #webdev #weeklyui #opensource

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Full Stack Tutorials

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Core Java Interview Questions

#java #opensource #interview #career

3 min read

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