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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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Alexander Omorokunwa

May 3 '18

What is The Linux Swap Partition?

#opensource #linux

1 min read

Apr 23 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (April 23 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Apr 27 '18

What made you look at a project and submit a PR? Or Not?

#discuss #opensource #github #web

1 min read

Idrees Dargahwala

Apr 29 '18

Coursehunt: Hunt your courses for free !

#showdev #opensource #productivity #javascript

1 min read

Shayne Boyer for .NET

Apr 25 '18

Getting started with .NET Core

#dotnet #opensource #aspnetcore #web

3 min read

Apr 25 '18

A Peek into Github’s Learning Lab

#softwaredevelopment #github #versioncontrol #opensource

2 min read

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jorin

Apr 21 '18

Ratlog.js – JavaScript Application Logging for Rats, Humans and Machines

#javascript #node #logging #opensource

3 min read

Kay Gosho

Apr 25 '18

Helpful Laravel open source projects

#laravel #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for One Movie - Exploring The Movie Database Api

Apr 17 '18

One Movie - Exploring The Movie Database Api

#showdev #android #opensource

3 min read

Henry

Apr 10 '18

I was not ready to become the maintainer of Babel

#opensource #javascript #babel #career

2 min read

Apr 16 '18

Show DEV: Apple rejected my app, so I decided to open-source it

#showdev #community #opensource #swift

2 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Apr 19 '18

6 Commands you must know to be Productive on the terminal.

#howto #linux #list #opensource

1 min read

macnux

Apr 19 '18

Mastering Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition

#discuss #linux #bash #opensource

1 min read

Apr 16 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (April 16 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

macnux

Apr 16 '18

Linux LDAP Server

#linux #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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