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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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Dec 18 '19

10+ tools to help you visualize your GitHub and Git project data

#opensource #git #github #visualization

10 min read

Dec 20 '19

Hacking on the KEDA project 👩‍💻

#opensource #kubernetes #go

3 min read

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Dec 19 '19

Word bugs in software documentation and how to fix them

#devops #security #devtips #opensource

4 min read

Dec 19 '19

How to Get a Job Using Open Source

#opensource #career #productivity

1 min read

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Dec 19 '19

How do you plan for a successful release day?

#discuss #help #opensource #android

1 min read

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Justin Mancinelli

Dec 18 '19

How do you know when a technology is ready?

#discuss #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Mr F.

Dec 15 '19

Awesome Terminal upgrades - Part Three: Manage ZSH plugins using Zplugin

#opensource #productivity #zsh #bash

2 min read

Dec 17 '19

Keep each other motivated on projects: #devchallenge

#letsbuild #opensource #teamprogramming

2 min read

Mr F.

Dec 16 '19

Manage your runtime environments using ASDF and not NVM or RVM etc...

#opensource #productivity #node #ruby

3 min read

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Yasser Ameur el idrissi

Dec 17 '19

express-telescope: A beautiful error page for Expressjs apps

#javascript #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Dec 17 '19

Linux find command tutorial

#linux #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

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Stephan

Dec 16 '19

Open Source Sports Video Analysis using Maching Learning

#machinelearning #python #opensource

14 min read

Shi Han

Dec 15 '19

gig: a gitignore generator

#showdev #productivity #opensource #go

4 min read

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Sm0ke

Dec 14 '19

Flask Apps - Open-Source Web Apps built with automation tools

#flask #opensource #appseed

4 min read

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Nisar Hassan Naqvi

Dec 14 '19

A free Open-source Portfolio template for web developers

#opensource #contributorswanted #html #css

1 min read

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