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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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Nov 17 '18

Snacks@console Intuitive browser-based SQL Console

#showdev #opensource #javascript #php

2 min read

sidemt

Nov 17 '18

My first PR was merged into dev.to!

#beginners #opensource

3 min read

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Lemuel Ogbunude

Nov 10 '18

Java is still free!

#java #beginners #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Daniel

Nov 12 '18

20 useful tools for open-source maintainers

#opensource #maintainers #programming

5 min read

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Adrien Trouillaud for Admiralty

Nov 12 '18

Introducing Multicluster-Service-Account

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

3 min read

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Nov 15 '18

PlazarJS Components by Example - Part 1

#discuss #webdev #javascript #opensource

6 min read

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Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Nov 9 '18

dev.to Repo Recap

#changelog #meta #opensource

2 min read

Nov 15 '18

Electronic Invoicing: Almost Two Decades On

#ubl #ebxml #invoicing #opensource

6 min read

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Guillaume Martigny

Nov 7 '18

Awesome projects under 1000 stars (3) - Lyo

#javascript #github #opensource

3 min read

Nov 13 '18

The "scared of change" fallacy

#wordpress #opensource #php

2 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Nov 13 '18

Weekly Trending Repositories on GitHub (Nov.04 - Nov.10)

#opensource #github #trending

6 min read

Iván González Sáiz

Nov 13 '18

Do you know any good resource about mental health in the software industry?

#discuss #opensource #mentalhealth #health

1 min read

Nov 5 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (November 5th edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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Nov 12 '18

Module Monday 20: Scrollmagic gallery, Reveal card, Fixed nav & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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Nov 13 '18

PHP Simple two way config package, and a backstory

#showdev #php #opensource #discuss

3 min read

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