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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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Piotr Kulpinski

Dec 4 '24

Top 5 Open-Source Projects for Developers

#opensource #programming #software #github

4 min read

TheoForger

Nov 28 '24

My First Publish to crates.io (and cross compilation)

#opensource #beginners #rust

5 min read

Nov 28 '24

🚀 Introducing Folio-Motion: A Stunning Developer Portfolio Template! 🎨

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Fab

Nov 28 '24

Transform Your Terminal with eza: The Upgrade ls Deserved

#productivity #opensource #terminal #macos

3 min read

Metta Surendhar

Nov 28 '24

Tired of Docker's Limitations? Here's Why Podman Should Be Your Next Container Engine

#opensource #docker #security #podman

5 min read

Adrian Paul Nutiu

Nov 27 '24

🏎️ When Bots Play Better: The One and Only Bot for KartWars.io

#automation #opensource #typescript #programming

4 min read

Leticia @levxyca for Feministech

Nov 27 '24

Desvendando o código aberto: junte-se à revolução colaborativa

#braziliandevs #opensource #github

4 min read

Nov 27 '24

Dockerfile Explain

#docker #opensource #dockerfile #devops

5 min read

Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Nov 28 '24

How We Started Continuous OSS License Monitoring with License Finder

#opensource #license #ci #githubactions

6 min read

Nov 27 '24

Set Default Values in Laravel with mergeIfMissing: Real-Life Examples

#tutorial #opensource #laravel #productivity

2 min read

Oct 24 '24

Khelo: From Streets to Stadiums - A Developer's Guide 🏏

#opensource #flutter #github #firebase

2 min read

Komninos Chatzipapas

Nov 26 '24

Creating an AI-powered Image Generation API Service with FLUX, Python, and Diffusers

#ai #python #opensource #api

9 min read

keploy

Nov 27 '24

API Testing: Ensuring Reliable and Robust Software Applications

#api #devops #opensource #java

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Ayu Adiati

Nov 19 '24

Open Source is For Everyone: First Experience in Non-Code Contribution to Mautic during Hacktoberfest 2024

#opensource #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Nov 26 '24

Cerbos: Fine-Grained Access Control in Days NOT Months

#tutorial #opensource #security #architecture

8 min read

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