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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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Brian Bethencourt for The DEV Team

Apr 25 '23

Community Discussion Thread — GitHub + DEV Hackathon 2023

#help #githubhack23 #github #opensource

1 min read

Apr 27 '23

How I built a chat widget with ChatGPT in under an hour

#chatgpt #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

May 3 '23

How to reuse workflow in GitHub Action pipeline

#github #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Apr 26 '23

Boost Your Productivity with These 15 Flow Launcher Hacks

#windows #global #search #opensource

4 min read

Cassidy Williams

Apr 8 '23

The Productivity apps I use in 2023

#productivity #applications #todo #opensource

5 min read

Jeff Tao

Apr 26 '23

Why I’m Still Obsessed with the Time Series Database

#timeseries #database #opensource #tdengine

10 min read

BiasGoose for RippleX Developers

Apr 25 '23

Fractal Digital Identity Integration: Bringing KYC/AML to the XRP Ledger Ecosystem

#opensource #blockchain #web3 #xrpl

3 min read

Mikhail Zub for SerpApi

Apr 15 '23

JavaScript Hotels Parser

#webscraping #node #serpapi #opensource

13 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Apr 24 '23

Managing Community Health Files and Templates with a .github Repository

#opensource #webdev #github #codenewbie

3 min read

Christine Belzie

Apr 26 '23

5 Important Lessons I Learned From Creating An Online Community

#writing #opensource #community

5 min read

Lief Storer for Stellar Development Foundation

Jun 23 '23

Tech Talks with Tomer: The Challenges of Smart Contracts and Interoperability with Axelar Co-founder Sergey Gorbunov

#blockchain #interoperability #crypto #opensource

1 min read

Apr 25 '23

How to start open-source contribution as a new developer

#opensource #github #developer #beginners

3 min read

Anwar Sadat Ayub

Apr 25 '23

Mozilla Open Source Project: 10 Things I Learnt.

#webdev #opensource

2 min read

sfrunza13

Apr 15 '23

Git Actions

#git #opensource

2 min read

Apr 25 '23

RudderStack - The Open Source Alternative to Segment

#opensource #developer #devtools #database

6 min read

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