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Open Source

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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Mazahir

Aug 2

I made yet another habit tracker in flutter.

#flutter #beginners #productivity #opensource

1 min read

NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚡

Aug 1

Getting Started with Fedora Silverblue

#linux #tutorial #opensource

9 min read

Andrzej Krzywda

Aug 2

Unblocking my blogging - recent progress at Arkency Ecommerce project

#blogging #rails #opensource #ddd

2 min read

Gabriel Taveira

Aug 1

You have been using React Native modals wrong.

#reactnative #opensource #javascript #tutorial

4 min read

Aviv Mor for krud.dev

Aug 2

Open source, philosophy, hate & other random words

#discuss #opensource #community

2 min read

Aug 2

Interviewing The Creator of Homebrew! What Should I Ask Him?!

#discuss #career #opensource #watercooler

1 min read

Aug 2

Contributing to Open Source and how Open Sauced can help

#opensource #beginners

58 min read

Sm0ke

Aug 2

Argon Dashboard - Free Tailwind Template

#tailwindcss #dashboards #opensource

2 min read

Aug 2

The Simplest Beginner's Guide to Cryptocurrencies.

#blockchain #web3 #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Aug 2

Edge and Embedded Community Site Now Available for Distributed Systems Developers to Share Knowledge

#opensource #microservices #systems #luos

1 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Aug 1

5 Top Open-source features and API for embedded systems and edge - Luos

#opensource #microservices #api #luos

1 min read

Unicorn Developer

Aug 1

How warnings simplify your code

#cpp #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Rohith ND

Jul 30

Black Line Follower with Arduino

#beginners #programming #arduino #opensource

2 min read

Jul 29

Securing Access to Kubernetes Environments with Zero Trust

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #programming