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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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Feb 4 '19

How blockchain achieves immutability?

#opensource #go #blockchain

1 min read

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Gabe

Feb 2 '19

A brief introduction to tiny CMS

#beginners #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Sebastiaan Deckers for Commons Host

Feb 3 '19

Bulldohzer 🚜 DNS & DoH performance testing

#showdev #opensource #dns #webperf

2 min read

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Ak

Feb 3 '19

ColorPrefUtil library for Android

#android #colorpreference #library #opensource

1 min read

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Feb 1 '19

Learn blockchain with Web3Coach

#webdev #career #opensource #blockchain

1 min read

Feb 1 '19

Securing IoT devices connections with blockchain: does it make sense?

#discuss #blockchain #security #opensource

2 min read

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Francesco Esposito

Jan 28 '19

Resume in JSON: jsonresume-theme-stackoverflow

#discuss #opensource #webdev #showdev

1 min read

Jan 28 '19

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Jan 28th edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

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Jan 28 '19

Portfolio gallery, Face detection, YouTube overlay & more | Module Monday 26

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Tim Perry

Jan 31 '19

Debugging Netlify Function Errors with Sentry

#debugging #opensource #netlify #sentry

5 min read

Jan 30 '19

JavaScript RPG fun and open source

#contributorswanted #opensource

1 min read

Jan 26 '19

I use the GitHub Desktop app for one thing. Am I doing this wrong?

#discuss #opensource #github #help

1 min read

Strahinja

Jan 30 '19

How personal opensource project helped me learn GO

#opensource #go

4 min read

Arek Nawo

Jan 29 '19

Open-source graveyard 💀

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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Jan 19 '19

Introducing Dank Neon, a new open source code theme!

#code #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

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