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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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Daniyar Zhadyrassyn

Aug 17 '18

My first PR merged!

#github #opensource #contribution

1 min read

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Michael MacTaggert

Aug 16 '18

Open Source Has Not Failed. Don't Cover Up Corporate Abuse of Open Source

#opensource #technology #career #rant

7 min read

Aug 20 '18

Show Dev.to: Open source boilerplate app to build your own SaaS product

#showdev #opensource #saas #javascript

1 min read

Avnish

Aug 23 '18

How to start contributing to open source?

#help #python #data #opensource

1 min read

Michael MacTaggert

Aug 23 '18

whiletruefm 0017: RE:Open Source Has Not Failed

#podcast #opensource #culture #career

3 min read

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dean

Aug 14 '18

My Favorite Go 2 Proposals

#go #opensource

3 min read

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Aug 16 '18

Adventures of a Hobbyist ~ Part four

#node #learning #opensource

4 min read

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Thomas Bnt

Aug 14 '18

Setup your Pi-hole

#opensource #raspberrypi #pihole #privacy

2 min read

Mac Siri

Aug 13 '18

Tools I use to stay on top of Github's notifications

#opensource #tools #productivity

2 min read

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Aug 14 '18

RIP Side Projects

#graveyard #career #opensource

7 min read

Zack

Aug 19 '18

Project graveyard

#graveyard #opensource

5 min read

Aug 19 '18

Which are the best JavaScript repositories on GitHub to contribute?

#discuss #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Aug 8 '18

GitHub Graveyards: I'll show you mine...

#graveyard #career #opensource

9 min read

Jack Harner 🚀

Aug 8 '18

Got My First Pull Request Accepted and Merged

#discuss #opensource #git

1 min read

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Aug 9 '18

What are some blockers for you on contributing to open source projects?

#discuss #opensource #git #beginners

1 min read

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