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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

Mar 18 '19

App-ideas Github Repository Update - Tiers

#coding #projects #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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Florin Pop

Mar 14 '19

App-ideas Github Repository

#coding #projects #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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Alessio

Mar 17 '19

Allun.ga - Open Source URL shortner

#react #webdev #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Mar 18 '19

Android — Create Bitmap from a View

#android #utility #bitmap #opensource

3 min read

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Pierre

Mar 15 '19

TOP 20 Python Github repositories in March'19

#python #github #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Mar 16 '19

Help Me Delete Your Tweets!

#showdev #opensource #python #privacy

2 min read

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Florin Pop

Mar 26 '19

App-ideas Github Repository Update - New Apps

#coding #projects #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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Mar 9 '19

3 Steps to Getting Started with Open Source

#javascript #beginners #career #opensource

6 min read

Mar 13 '19

MongoDB (the company) is up HUGE after today's earnings call

#news #business #mongodb #opensource

1 min read

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Paolo Melchiorre

Mar 14 '19

My involvement in the Python community

#django #opensource #linux #python

6 min read

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Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Mar 7 '19

#100DaysofCode worth it or not? 🤔

#showdev #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Mar 11 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (March 11th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Mar 12 '19

Community Bridge – community maintenance and funding for OSS?

#discuss #community #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Niklas Heidloff

Mar 13 '19

Lightweight serverless Java functions with Quarkus

#java #serverless #quarkus #opensource

2 min read

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Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer

Mar 11 '19

Microsoft Deserves A 👍 For Open Sourcing It's Calculator on Github

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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