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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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Julia Biro for Vonage

Apr 18 '19

How to Send SMS Messages with Node-RED

#showdev #nodered #node #opensource

6 min read

Pavneet Singh Saund for Dolittle

Apr 18 '19

Officially backing Aurelia Front-End Framework

#aurelia #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Apr 8 '19

Spin up a "local" instance of DEV in the cloud with GitPod (It's incredibly simple)

#contributorswanted #gitpod #opensource #docker

2 min read

Yuki Inoue

Apr 16 '19

The Most Important Task For Every OSS Maintainer

#opensource

2 min read

Apr 15 '19

pretty-quick git trick

#discuss #javascript #tools #opensource

1 min read

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Apr 15 '19

Sample Programs Repo Now Supports Testing

#showdev #github #opensource #testing

3 min read

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Apr 15 '19

Subtle zoom, Wikipedia search, Pre-load images | Module Monday 36

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Apr 15 '19

MySigMail v1.9.0 is out 🎉

#vue #githunt #opensource

1 min read

Apr 15 '19

Vue Form Components v2.0.0 is out

#vue #githunt #opensource

1 min read

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Apr 10 '19

How I'm Automating My Productivity With This Smart Home Combo

#productivity #webdev #opensource #javascript

4 min read

Nucu Labs

Apr 14 '19

Quick Programming Tip: The Silver Searcher

#productivity #beginners #opensource #programming

1 min read

Apr 25 '19

Adding a estimated time to read to a .NET Core Blog with Razor

#development #opensource #dotnetcore

1 min read

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Apr 8 '19

Introducing Gitpod – Frictionless Coding on GitHub

#github #productivity #opensource #cloudide

6 min read

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Timur Minulin for Cube

Apr 11 '19

Nginx Log Analytics with AWS Athena and Cube.js

#tutorials #javascript #opensource #webdev

9 min read

Lorenzo (Mec-iS)

Apr 12 '19

Python Hydra: Making Summer Great by Hacking Web APIs

#http #webapis #rest #opensource

5 min read

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