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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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Olawale Bashiru

Nov 12

How I Built a Tiny Tool That Makes Responsive Design Feel Effortless

#frontend #javascript #css #opensource

5 min read

Huỳnh Nhân Quốc

Nov 12

A Dreamy Developer Finding Where I Belong

#programming #opensource #indiedeveloper #buildinpublic

4 min read

Huỳnh Nhân Quốc

Nov 12

The Indie Path

#dreamer #opensource #kitjs #webdev

4 min read

Nov 12

How Git History Reveals Your Riskiest Code

#programming #go #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Dan McCoy

Nov 12

🌀 Simulating Time Loops in a Shed: A Spin-Biased FDTD Journey

#opensource #simulation #python #programming

2 min read

Nov 12

Veri-Helix: making bioinformatics reproducible, one figure at a time

#showdev #python #bioinformatics #opensource

2 min read

Huecki

Nov 12

Built an AI Shareable Task and Event Manager | OSS | Self-Host it

#showdev #webdev #ai #opensource

1 min read

v. Splicer for Hidden Layer Media

Nov 12

remu.ii: Building the Ghost Before the Body