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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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Cleo Buenaventura

Sep 12 '24

First collaboration with the open source community

#opensource #github #community

6 min read

Jan Dvorak for Meteor

Sep 11 '24

Introducing Meteor Work Groups

#news #meteor #opensource #community

3 min read

Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

Sep 10 '24

How the Ruby Repository Masters Fast Merges: Cutting Corners or Genius Efficiency?

#ruby #opensource #development #softwaredevelopment

8 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Arpit

Sep 12 '24

2 weeks of Hacktoberfest as a first-time maintainer and contributor

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #programming

2 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Sep 12 '24

Source Code Analysis of Apache SeaTunnel Zeta Engine (Part 2): Task Submission Process on the Client Side

#coding #apacheseatunnel #datascience #opensource

17 min read

Heapstack

Sep 12 '24

From Hack Idea to Release: Reflections on Creating and Releasing a Open Source Project

#opensource #go #cli

7 min read

Aug 10 '24

Building a multi-tenant application with honeystone/context

#laravel #php #saas #opensource

6 min read

Milica Maksimovic for Wasp

Sep 11 '24

The Faces Behind Open Source Projects: Tim Jones and pg-boss

#news #postgres #opensource #webdev

10 min read

Sep 12 '24

fabric.js implements custom preview effects for clothing/merchandise

#webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Sep 11 '24

Interview with Victor Aremu, Creator of Menote, Usezap and more!

#tauri #rust #opensource #interview

1 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Sep 10 '24

Build a CLI in Rust

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

7 min read

Manik Aggarwal for CORE

Sep 11 '24

How we simplified Bug Tracking using Tegon Slack Actions 🚀🚀

#automation #typescript #opensource #ai

2 min read

Palomino for Logto

Sep 11 '24

Conventional commits won't save your commit messages

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Sep 11 '24

useDebugValue usage in Zustand source code explained.

#javascript #typescript #opensource #react

2 min read

Aug 13 '24

Introducing Dev Encyclopedia: A "Wikipedia", but for developers

#webdev #beginners #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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