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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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spuccia

Nov 1 '19

Looking for a Vue open-source project

#vue #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Chris Noring for ITNEXT

Oct 28 '19

How YOU can contribute to OSS, a beginners guide

#showdev #beginners #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Nov 1 '19

What I found😲 when I dug into the dev.to💻 source code looking for emoji support!🎁

#javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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delprzemo

Nov 1 '19

Angular cheatsheet + interview questions

#angular #typescript #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Luke Glazebrook

Oct 31 '19

5 Tips for Getting Started with Open Source Development

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

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Eddy Vinck

Oct 30 '19

I finished Hacktoberfest for the first time

#hacktoberfest #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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Oct 31 '19

Appwrite Is an Open Source Backend That AIMS to Give Your New Project a Better Starting Point

#javascript #webdev #opensource #architecture

4 min read

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scottgallant for Tina

Oct 30 '19

Creating Markdown Drafts with Gatsby and TinaCMS

#opensource #gatsby #tinacms #react

4 min read

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Oct 30 '19

EventManager - an agnostic alternative to Redux

#react #redux #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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Oct 30 '19

Excited to release my first side project on ProductHunt

#opensource #javascript #productivity

1 min read

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Ali Abbas

Oct 30 '19

Hacktoberfest 2k19 Ends

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

Oct 29 '19

Understanding Git, Github and Contributing to open Source Projects

#git #github #opensource

3 min read

Oct 26 '19

The Best Thing for Your Resume

#career #opensource

1 min read

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Manuele J Sarfatti

Oct 29 '19

Introducing CRAL: Create React App Laravel

#showdev #react #laravel #opensource

2 min read

adro.codes

Oct 28 '19

Why haven't I done hacktoberfest before?

#opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript

3 min read

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