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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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Apr 11 '23

How and why did you start contributing to Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #programming #webdev

1 min read

Apr 14 '23

Fireactjs: my open-source NPM packages for building SaaS using React, Firebase, and Stripe

#react #firebase #opensource #saas

4 min read

Christy Jacob for Appwrite

Apr 12 '23

Introducing Password Dictionary In Appwrite: A New Layer Of Security

#news #opensource #programming

3 min read

Giles Knap

Mar 15 '23

Learn Python using Minecraft

#python #beginners #programming #opensource

1 min read

Giuliano Bellini

Apr 13 '23

My Open Source project has been selected for the GitHub Accelerator Program and I'll be working on it full-time!

#github #opensource #rust #programming

3 min read

Shannon McFarland for Outshift By Cisco

Apr 13 '23

VMClarity: Virtual Machine Security

#sbom #opensource #appsec

2 min read

Thew

Apr 13 '23

Deploy your own short URL to Vercel Edge Middleware

#showdev #opensource #serverless #vercel

3 min read

Apr 12 '23

Is it easier to work alone than to work with others?

#discuss #opensource #webdev

1 min read

awalias for Supabase

Apr 13 '23

Supabase Auth: SSO, Mobile, and Server-side support

#supabase #opensource #authentication #programming

7 min read

colin-williams-dev

Apr 13 '23

Purposeful Programming Languages: Non-English Syntaxes

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

5 min read

Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

Apr 12 '23

GitHub Discussion: O que é isso e pra que serve?

#braziliandevs #githubbrasi #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Apr 12 '23

10 reasons why you should use Flutter

#flutter #appdev #opensource #learning

2 min read

Damodar Lohani for Appwrite

Apr 13 '23

Protect Your Applications from Bad Passwords - Introducing Password History

#news #appwrite #opensource #programming

2 min read

awalias for Supabase

Apr 12 '23

Supabase Storage v3: Resumable Uploads with support for 50GB files

#supabase #opensource #postgres #storage

6 min read

Precious Abubakar

Apr 12 '23

How to Overcome the Challenges of Open Source Contribution

#opensource #beginners #career

5 min read

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