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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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Florin Pop

Apr 7 '19

App-ideas Github Repository Update - Achievements, New Feature and More Apps

#coding #projects #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Apr 5 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Three Weeks

#changelog #meta #opensource

14 min read

saif ali

Apr 6 '19

Creating a simple mapper for java

#opensource #java

1 min read

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Apr 4 '19

Stop limiting your open source library’s potential

#opensource #javascript #career

2 min read

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Andrey Sitnik for Evil Martians

Apr 2 '19

Faster WebGL/Three.js 3D graphics with OffscreenCanvas and Web Workers

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

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Artyom Keydunov for Cube

Apr 4 '19

High Performance Data Analytics with Cube.js Pre-Aggregations

#opensource #tutorial #javascript #webdev

6 min read

Mykal

Apr 4 '19

Preparing for Battlesnake

#opensource #javascript #webdev #justforfun

4 min read

Apr 3 '19

🔥 #overengineeringchallenge 🔥

#showdev #opensource #programming #contributorswanted

1 min read

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vorillaz

Apr 4 '19

Tabsub: Creating a Simple Messaging Library

#html #javascript #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

kaelscion

Mar 31 '19

Introducing Slither: Adding anonymous proxy IPs and randomized User Agents to Scraping Projects

#showdev #opensource #python #webscraping

1 min read

Apr 2 '19

JetBrains gave me 1 year license for all products

#discuss #opensource #vue

1 min read

Matthew D. Miller

Apr 3 '19

Monetizing Open Source on Proprietary Platforms

#discuss #opensource #sideprojects

3 min read

Apr 1 '19

Reducing HTTP request overhead in PHP

#webdev #php #http #opensource

3 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Mar 29 '19

Contributors Wanted: Night Mode/Themes on DEV

#contributorswanted #opensource #meta #css

2 min read

kaelscion

Apr 1 '19

Help Testing "Sentinel": A Real-Time Proxy Bot Filter for the Web

#showdev #webscraping #opensource #python

2 min read

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