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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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Lee Reilly

May 4 '21

12 open source projects for #StarWarsDay

#github #opensource #starwars #starwarsday

8 min read

May 3 '21

Automate backing up your Docker volumes

#docker #containers #devops #opensource

4 min read

May 4 '21

[EN] Senginta: Traditional Search Engine Scrapper

#searchengine #googlescrapper #baidu #opensource

2 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

May 3 '21

April: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#opensource #meta

2 min read

Siddharth Chandra

May 3 '21

How To Create A Paint Brush Application Using OpenCV

#python #opencv #application #opensource

9 min read

Guy Torbet

May 1 '21

How to Build a Blog in NextJS and Get a Perfect Lighthouse Score

#react #nextjs #opensource #webdev

8 min read

May 2 '21

Top 5 Operations for Python Lists

#python #lists #programming #opensource

7 min read

stalin s

May 2 '21

Understanding Git.

#github #opensource

12 min read

devin ivy for hapi pal

Apr 11 '21

2018-2019 Article Archive

#webdev #archive #opensource

1 min read

May 1 '21

Leon Open-Source Personal Assistant: Getting Rid of Dust / 1.0.0-beta.4

#opensource #javascript #python #node

9 min read

Ryan Carniato for This is Learning

Apr 22 '21

Of Chickens and Pigs - The Dilemma of Creator Self Promotion

#webdev #devjournal #javascript #opensource

9 min read

Apr 30 '21

Authoring Great Pull Requests

#opensource #github #programming #tutorial

6 min read

Fleek for Fleek

Apr 30 '21

Release Update - Site Previews, Cancel & Retry Deploys, Table Improvements

#news #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Apr 30 '21

My Journey at the MLH Fellowship

#showdev #opensource #mlhgrad #computerscience

7 min read

Adithya Krishna

Apr 30 '21

My First Major OSS Contribution - Journey to the World of Service Mesh

#cloud #opensource #beginners #webdev

4 min read

Chris Reddington for Cloud with Chris

Apr 30 '21

Contributing to a Hugo Theme - The Castanet and Hugo Community Themes

#community #hugo #opensource

7 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Apr 22 '21

Building a Healthier Planet with Open Source Software

#discuss #environmentalism #opensource #earthday

2 min read

Lorna Jane Mitchell

Apr 29 '21

Tips for Designing Apache Kafka Message Payloads

#data #opensource #kafka

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 28 '21

Using AWS CDK to deploy your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow environment

#aws #opensource

10 min read

Sm0ke

Apr 27 '21

Laravel Theme Download - Modern UI Kits to start fast

#laravel #webdev #opensource

4 min read

lotusleaf

Apr 27 '21

We Created An Open-source Emoji Library (Without Going to the Emoji Authorities)

#opensource #emoji #webdev #programming

1 min read

Elizabeth

Apr 28 '21

My open-source experience via SCA Contributhon

#opensource

3 min read

Vignesh Ragupathy

Apr 28 '21

Plotly4Nagios - A Graph plugin for nagios monitoring

#monitoring #opensource #nagios #linux

2 min read

Apr 17 '21

Dawn of the Final Week (Again)

#opensource #bribery #ohgodhelpme #beer

5 min read

Michael Crump for Microsoft Azure

Apr 26 '21

Get started with the Go Programming Language with Microsoft Learn! (no experience needed)

#programming #productivity #opensource #go

1 min read

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