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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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Elliot Brenya sarfo

Nov 29 '22

Top 30 Open Source Projects( JavaScript ,Java, and more)

#opensource #typescript #javascript #vue

9 min read

Leticia Amancio

Nov 29 '22

Choose your journey

#opensource #learning #development

2 min read

Lyn Muldrow for Tidelift

Nov 29 '22

The 2023 open source maintainer survey aims to share the state of open source today

#news #opensource #devops #webdev

2 min read

Nov 28 '22

Open Source Development Courses

#discuss #opensource #osdc #career

2 min read

Gulnur Baimukhambetova

Nov 27 '22

How to publish your project to npm?

#javascript #node #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Lorain

Nov 28 '22

An interesting process of solving an issue

#webdev #go #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Nicolas Hourcard

Nov 28 '22

QuestDB 6.6 - Dynamic Commits

#database #opensource #java #analytics

4 min read

Nov 28 '22

WebRTC 102: Understanding libWebrtc

#webrtc #opensource #video #programming

11 min read

Joseph Mukorivo

Nov 28 '22

Getting started with python Data classes(Part 1)

#opensource

2 min read

Nov 27 '22

100+ JavaScript concepts, same app using 7 frameworks & CSS flex explained the right way

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

Nov 26 '22

Creating a Todo List with Solid-Start and MongoDB

#discuss #opensource #puppet #community

5 min read

Andrew O'Rourke

Nov 24 '22

Telex: A Rust-Based PBX

#opensource

5 min read

Nov 26 '22

Making TUI kanban app with BubbleTea | MongoDB Atlas Hackathon 2022 on DEV

#atlashackathon22 #go #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 27 '22

Pixel Bootstrap 5 - Free Django PyPi Theme

#webdev #django #bootstrap5 #opensource

2 min read

Nov 27 '22

Streamlining AMIs using Packer, Vault & GitHub Actions

#github #opensource

12 min read

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