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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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Honeybadger Staff for Honeybadger

Mar 2 '23

An Introduction To Hanami 2.0

#discuss #ai #opensource #security

12 min read

Ridhwana Khan for The DEV Team

Feb 10 '23

Caching at DEV

#performance #tutorial #opensource #webdev

15 min read

Mar 1 '23

Revolutionize Your DevOps with ChatGPT: Boost Productivity and Streamline Tasks

#showdev #github #opensource

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 14 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 50)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Mar 1 '23

My Journey in Open Source - soft-delete-migrator

#javascript #tutorial #opensource #github

5 min read

Pete Cheslock for AppMap

Feb 28 '23

Code-First Auto-Generated OpenAPI Docs for Django Applications

#discuss #welcome #opensource #mobile

4 min read

Harish Rajora for TestMu AI

Mar 1 '23

How To Test Websites And Apps For Black Friday And Cyber Monday

#discuss #community #softwaredevelopment #opensource

14 min read

Feb 28 '23

A Step-by-Step Guide to Share images from Your Expo React Native App to Instagram Stories

#discuss #opensource #software #tools

3 min read

Stanislav Silin

Feb 28 '23

ZeroQL V3 - C# friendly GraphQL client

#csharp #graphql #webdev #opensource

3 min read

van

Feb 28 '23

audioFlux: A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction.

#python #opensource #c

2 min read

Sriram Ramkrishna for oneAPI Community

Feb 28 '23

Modern Software Development Tools and oneAPI Part 3

#sycl #oneapi #opensource #tips

10 min read

Feb 27 '23

Using a DateHelper to avoid date issues

#discuss #python #ai #opensource

2 min read

Feb 20 '23

SvelteKit 1.0 - Building a personal blog, that shows your DEV posts 🦄

#svelte #tutorial #opensource #webdev

12 min read

Thomas Toledo-Pierre

Feb 15 '23

How I created an Observable library - part 1

#javascript #opensource #typescript #observable

6 min read

Gaurav Chaudhary

Feb 26 '23

Writing a Program for Palindrome in C

#discuss #opensource #career #productivity

2 min read

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