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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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Emanuele Bartolesi

Dec 9 '18

A new way to contribute to Open Source Projects

#net #netcore #opensource #github

1 min read

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Geshan Manandhar

Dec 1 '18

4 Ways Docker Changed the Way Software Engineers Work in Past Half Decade

#docker #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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jorin

Nov 29 '18

The Cloud Is the New OS - A Developer's Perspective

#technology #programming #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Nov 26 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (November 26th edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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Palash Bauri 👻

Dec 6 '18

I got all the certificates from FreeCodeCamp! Ask Something or Share Something from/with me

#discuss #opensource #showdev #ama

1 min read

Dec 6 '18

Prettyplan: an open-source Terraform formatting tool for devs

#showdev #devops #tools #opensource

2 min read

Banesa Guaderrama

Dec 4 '18

Open Source Contributions

#opensource #programming #begginer #coding

2 min read

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Dec 3 '18

Module Monday 21: Split image wipe, Scroll top, Thumb grid & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Nov 26 '18

npm package discovered to have bitcoin-stealing backdoor

#news #npm #opensource #security

1 min read

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 29 '18

dev.to Repo Recap of the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

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Nov 26 '18

Google to pay JavaScript frameworks to implement performance-first code

#discuss #opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

Ghost

Dec 3 '18

Failed startup turned successful open source project?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Nov 29 '18

Making 24 Pull Requests more inclusive for 2018

#challenge #opensource #christmas

3 min read

Ricardo N Feliciano for CircleCI

Dec 18 '18

Hey open source maintainers! Empower your contributors with continuous integration

#devops #opensource #cicd

4 min read

Progress Telerik for Progress Telerik

Dec 10 '18

Microsoft’s Latest Open Source Announcements: Why Should You Care?

#microsoft #dotnet #opensource

3 min read

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