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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.

Sep 29 '23

Broadcast Trading & Stock Market Messages to Multiple Users at Fixed Times | Using Node.js and SuprSend

#opensource #devops #suprsend #node

5 min read

Imam Ali Mustofa for WebX DAO

Sep 29 '23

The WebXGuild Chronicles - #03C02: Mock Server Marry with NextJS

#webdev #devjournal #opensource #github

2 min read

terngr

Sep 29 '23

Rotate certificate in NGINX Open Source without restart

#nginx #ssl #opensource #nginxplus

1 min read

Sep 23 '23

Getting Saucy: I Joined OpenSauced!

#career #opensource

2 min read

Sep 26 '23

🚀 Supercharge Your Repo for Hacktoberfest 2023

#github #opensource #hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Geri Máté for dyrector.io

Sep 28 '23

Go Hacktoberfest Issues

#go #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

1 min read

Shanelle

Sep 28 '23

Reviewing AI Code Search Tools

#opensource #ai #programming #productivity

4 min read

Sep 14 '23

Why I quit open source

#opensource #mentalhealth #burnout #hobbies

7 min read

Sep 28 '23

GitHub and Developer Ecosystem Control

#discuss #github #opensource

9 min read

overFlow

Sep 28 '23

My Vanilla Fresh Hacktoberfest23 Pledge

#hacktoberfest23 #javascript #beginners #opensource

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 26 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: Beyond Green Squares

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #hacktoberfest23

6 min read

Nevo David for Gitroom

Sep 24 '23

5 steps to build an authority for you and your repository

#discuss #webdev #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Julia Furst Morgado

Sep 28 '23

How to Contribute to CNCF Glossary Localization - No Code Needed -

#opensource #tutorial #cloud #beginners

6 min read

Yeom suyun

Sep 28 '23

How to create a simple VSCE for CSS Lube

#webdev #javascript #opensource #css

3 min read

guto

Sep 18 '23

How to write a CRUD CLI using Elixir and ScyllaDB

#scylladb #elixir #opensource #tutorial

18 min read

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