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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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Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Sep 12 '23

Where's the Hacktoberfest 2023 T-Shirt?

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Sep 14 '23

Arch Installation for Beginners

#linux #opensource

7 min read

Niklas for Rig.dev

Sep 13 '23

Why we launched earlier than what felt comfortable

#discuss #startup #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

Mary

Sep 14 '23

Pest-Driven Development: Learning, Iterating and Project Planning

#laravel #pest #testing #opensource

15 min read

Anson Ch for Vue PDF Viewer

Sep 14 '23

⚡️6 Most Popular Vue.js UI Libraries (Vue 3) in 2023 🔥

#vue #javascript #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Sep 14 '23

PYTHON DICTIONARIES

#python #github #opensource #codenewbie

1 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 13 '23

Open Source ABCs: Pull Request

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

2 min read

Sep 14 '23

How is it to build something in public?

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #microsaas

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 12 '23

Navigating Spammy and Low-Quality PRs: A Guide for Maintainers

#opensource #100daysofoss #github

4 min read

Greptime

Sep 14 '23

From Participant to Intern - Zou Wei's Journey with Greptime and OSPP 2023

#greptime #database #programming #opensource

4 min read

RoboCoach

Sep 13 '23

ROScribe

#gpt3 #robotics #ai #opensource

2 min read

Kaustubh Shinde

Sep 13 '23

How to use Stack UI to build your personal portfolio

#javascript #opensource #productivity #tutorial

16 min read

Sep 13 '23

WunderGraph Cosmo: a open source alternative to Apollo Federation, GraphOS, Studio, etc...

#graphql #opensource #webdev #javascript

5 min read

Sep 13 '23

Customizing the App Theme and Using Custom Fonts in Flutter

#flutter #dart #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Shelender Kumar 🇵🇰

Aug 15 '23

Exploring Graph Analytics with Apache AGE: A Comprehensive Overview

#apache #database #opensource #postgres

2 min read

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