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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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Celeste van der Watt for Platform.sh

Jun 28 '23

Dive into the world of Markus Staab, a passionate web developer, and Open Source contributor 🔥

#webdev #opensource #testing

1 min read

JackTT

Jun 28 '23

Kafka dump: backup, restore, stream,...

#go #opensource

3 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Jun 19 '23

5 React Libraries to Level Up your Projects in 2023

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Jun 27 '23

Tilting Cursor effect with CSS and JS

#discuss #opensource #api #contributorswanted

3 min read

Thomas Segura for GitGuardian

Jun 27 '23

Are Your Company Secrets Safe on GitHub? Here's Why You Need to Request a Complimentary Audit

#github #opensource #cybersecurity #osint

5 min read

m-hashir

Jun 27 '23

Internals of PostgreSQL - Chapter 2

#postgres #postgressql #opensource

1 min read

Lingen Liu

Jun 27 '23

Debian 12 Released, Maybe It Is The Best Linux Distribution

#linux #opensource

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jun 23 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 47)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 26 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #162

#opensource #aws

16 min read

Jun 26 '23

Only internally vetted and approved Open Source libraries can be used

#opensource #corporations #libraries

2 min read

Rizèl Scarlett

Jun 26 '23

Revolutionize authentication through the 1Password Hackathon

#hackathon #programming #security #opensource

4 min read

Mayukha Vadari for RippleX Developers

Jun 26 '23

EVM Sidechain Devnet is Now Available for Testing and Development

#xrpl #opensource #blockchain #web3

3 min read

Moazam Ali

Jun 26 '23

DevLog - An intuitive admin dashboard for managing blogs.

#refinehackathon #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Jun 15 '23

Diving into Machine Learning🤖

#outreachy #opensource #mboalab #machinelearning

5 min read

Jun 26 '23

Create Stunning HTML Emails with vue-email - A Vue.js Components

#vue #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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