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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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Justin Patriquin

Nov 1 '22

Do you have any ideas for confidential computing?

#discuss #webdev #opensource #devops

1 min read

anshul137

Nov 2 '22

DPS909 Blog :LAB 7 Intro to Static Analysis

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 11 '22

Argon Dashboard BS5 - Free Theme for Django

#webdev #django #opensource #appseed

1 min read

Nov 1 '22

Creating a Go SDK for Buildable.dev (Part 1)

#programming #go #opensource

2 min read

Nov 12 '22

How to use Babel's new addExternalDependency API

#javascript #reactnative #opensource #node

2 min read

Nov 12 '22

Go Project Source Code Analysis: Schedule Job Library "cron"

#go #opensource #github

4 min read

Andrea Cavagna | AWS builder for AWS Community Builders

Nov 11 '22

Can't miss Cloud Operations Sessions at re:Invent 2022

#aws #cloud #opensource #operations

7 min read

ib-dev-cpp

Nov 11 '22

A NEW REGEX ENGINE IS HERE!

#regex #cpp #opensource #github

2 min read

kanthakran

Nov 11 '22

GITHUB ACTION (Quick guide)

#github #git #devops #opensource

4 min read

Manik

Nov 11 '22

Why is Ubuntu a Distribution and Windows an Operating System?

#programming #linux #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

Nov 10 '22

Appwrite's Hacktoberfest '22 Journey

#appwrite #hacktoberfest #opensource #programming

4 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Nov 10 '22

Use GitHub Desktop to open your first Pull Request

#github #git #opensource #beginners

1 min read

sfrunza13

Nov 10 '22

Testing

#testing #opensource #programming #python

5 min read

Anish De for Medusa

Nov 10 '22

Medusa Webhooks: The Best Technical Project of the Medusa Hackathon

#opensource #javascript #webdev #devjournal

4 min read

Sebastian Vaduva

Nov 10 '22

Sinkchart - open source visualisation tool for your JS dependencies

#security #opensource #javascript #datascience

2 min read

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