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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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May 16 '19

Why your Open Source Project might lack (my?) contribution (1)

#opensource #organisation #management

5 min read

pablocar80

May 16 '19

Lara: Server-side rendering and virtual DOM in C#

#csharp #html #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Vadim

May 16 '19

My first useful open source project

#tools #taskrunner #go #opensource

1 min read

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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

May 6 '19

Changelog: Upgraded Reading List and Followable Podcasts

#meta #changelog #opensource #preact

3 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

May 14 '19

IssueHunt Fest 2019 Spring: Win AirPods by contributing to OSS 🎧

#showdev #opensource #issuehunt #bounty

2 min read

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May 13 '19

Hotspots, Social proof, Map form | Module Monday 39

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Syeda Aimen Batool

May 12 '19

How I got a remote, paid internship with Mozilla through Outreachy

#internships #opensource #career #javascript

11 min read

Elayan Hamamrah

May 11 '19

Sawia | A community to share your open-source projects

#contributorswanted #rails #sideprojects #opensource

1 min read

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May 9 '19

dev.to API: How to Turn DEV Posts into Postcards 📫

#showdev #beginners #opensource #javascript

2 min read

May 10 '19

Why you should participate in Google Season of Docs

#writing #opensource

2 min read

Tane Piper

May 10 '19

ngx-editorjs - An Angular module for EditorJS

#showdev #angular #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Josh Wulf

May 10 '19

How to Get a Job Through Doing Open Source

#opensource #career

9 min read

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May 3 '19

Formidable Labs to Start Paying for OSS Contributions

#discuss #opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

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Timur Minulin for Cube

May 9 '19

Angular Dashboard Tutorial with Cube.js

#tutorials #javascript #opensource #webdev

5 min read

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Autumn

Apr 17 '19

How To Get Any Job You Want - A Guide To Employability Skills

#showdev #career #beginners #opensource

144 min read

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