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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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Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Sep 23 '24

7 Open Source Projects You Should Know - Vue Edition ✔️ [BONUS]

#vue #javascript #github #opensource

3 min read

Sep 25 '24

Doing custom sections in Umbraco 14

#opensource #umbraco #typescript #webcomponents

4 min read

Vignesh J

Sep 25 '24

🚀 Hacktoberfest 2024: Contribute, Learn, and Earn Cool Badges! 🌟

#hacktoberfest #opensource #campx #holopin

1 min read

Joan Magnet for Uno Platform

Aug 22 '24

UnoKeyboard

#unoplatform #csharp #opensource

4 min read

Njokom Alain Junior

Aug 22 '24

How to start contributing to Utreexo

#blockchain #go #opensource #bitcoin

6 min read

Nixys

Aug 22 '24

Using Istio Resources with nxs-universal-chart

#devops #istio #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Njokom Alain Junior

Aug 22 '24

Improving Bitcoin: My experience contributing to Utreexo for SOB 2024.

#bitcoin #blockchain #opensource

4 min read

Shih-Chun Huang

Sep 25 '24

Win $50 Amazon Gift Card with Instill AI in Hacktoberfest, with the mission of Get Your Data AI-Ready, Flowing, Thinking!

#opensource #ai #go #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Jing for Chat2DB

Sep 25 '24

How to create a table with SQL code?

#sql #database #ai #opensource

6 min read

Rajni Rethesh for Middleware

Sep 24 '24

Bootstrap: Strong Merge and Cycle Times, but First Response Time Needs a Revamp

#webdev #frontend #opensource #devops

8 min read

Lulu

Aug 26 '24

A Reliable Anti-Scraping Tool: My Experience with SafeLine

#cybersecurity #webdev #waf #opensource

2 min read

Digvijay Shelar

Sep 23 '24

Hacktoberfest: Your Open Source Journey Starts Here

#opensource #hacktoberfest24 #hacktoberfest

5 min read

NocoBase

Sep 13 '24

NocoBase vs NocoDB: An In-Depth Comparison of Open Source No-Code Tools

#opensource #github #lowcode #development

12 min read

Aziz FADIL

Sep 24 '24

How I Built an Open Source App That Went Viral

#opensource #rust #tauri #react

4 min read

Sep 24 '24

`.git-blame-ignore-revs` to ignore bulk formatting changes.

#javascript #typescript #opensource #react

5 min read

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