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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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Mikhail Chikankov

Dec 14

The best and fastest cli generator for .ignore files

#programming #go #opensource #github

1 min read

Bryce Seefieldt

Dec 13

PyPI Packaging

#python #pypi #opensource

3 min read

Srinivas Kandukuri

Dec 13

Top 5 Posts tagged(#opensource) last week

#opensource #c4r4x35

2 min read

Dec 14

Enforce API Stability with Zod and Argos

#javascript #testing #opensource #node

2 min read

Dec 14

🏆 Open Source Heroes - December updates

#showdev #opensource

1 min read

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Dec 14

Sloan's Inbox: What's the hardest thing about being a developer?

#discuss #learning #opensource

1 min read

Stacy Roll

Dec 12

linux-rs is in process!!

#news #linux #rust #opensource

3 min read

Katie Liu

Dec 14

Contributing to a JavaScript project!

#opensource #react #chatgpt #typescript

5 min read

Pradumna Saraf for Livecycle

Dec 13

How to Get Preview Environments for Every Pull Request

#opensource