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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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Nik L.

Oct 3 '23

Choosing The Right Message Queue Technology For Your Notification System

#opensource #messagequeue #kafka #notification

9 min read

fmerian for crowd.dev

Oct 2 '23

Who's hiring developer advocates? — October 2023

#opensource #devrel #career #hacktoberfest23

2 min read

Liyas Thomas for Hoppscotch

Oct 2 '23

Insomnia Alternative: Hoppscotch - Open Source, Self-Hosted API Development Ecosystem

#opensource #webdev #github

3 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

Sep 30 '23

How to choose a license for your GitHub repository

#opensource #beginners #ai #github

2 min read

Alex

Oct 2 '23

Unlocking Git's Hidden Powers: 5 Configuration Tips

#git #config #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

3 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Oct 2 '23

Hacktoberfest #01

#beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest23

2 min read

Gaurav Tarlok Kakkar

Oct 2 '23

Stargazers Reloaded – LLM-Powered Analyses of Your GitHub Community

#chatgpt #programming #python #opensource

1 min read

Oct 2 '23

HackSquad: Your Open Source Squad For Hacktoberfest

#opensource #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23

2 min read

Abhay

Oct 2 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023 Pledge

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

1 min read

Unicorn Developer

Oct 2 '23

Checking the GCC 13 compiler

#cpp #programming #opensource

7 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 29 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 61)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #100daysofoss

1 min read

Oct 2 '23

🖼️ Unleash graph visualization power to take full control over your project with skott

#webdev #opensource #typescript #visualization

4 min read

Ayu Adiati

Oct 1 '23

Ayu's Hacktoberfest 2023 Pledge

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #codenewbie

2 min read

Oct 2 '23

Finding Issues for Hacktoberfest

#beginners #github #opensource #hacktoberfest23

1 min read

Amit Kumar Rout

Oct 2 '23

Created My First npx Package: "create-sra"

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

2 min read

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