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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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BekahHW for Deepgram

Nov 1 '22

What was your favorite Hacktoberfest experience?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Archer Allstars

Nov 6 '22

Take your sudo back from Bug 1205094, openSUSE Tumbleweed

#linux #opensource #tutorial #productivity

1 min read

MBJ

Nov 6 '22

Nice cyber punk open source library with +90 HUD elements. we want to reach +1000 elements. (L)

#react #librar #opensource #love

1 min read

Shubham Sharma for Documatic

Nov 6 '22

How to find open-source projects to contribute to

#opensource #programming #tutorial #career

5 min read

Nov 6 '22

How to Secure your Site with SSL for FREE!

#webdev #tutorial #security #opensource

3 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Nov 5 '22

✨Write clean Python code using pylint and black ✨🐍

#python #opensource #programming

4 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Nov 2 '22

How to automatically ship releases for your project. Why release?

#opensource #productivity #github #tooling

8 min read

Ervin Szilagyi for recon-tools

Nov 5 '22

Certificate Parsing with `domain-recon`

#rust #dns #opensource #hacking

6 min read

Nov 5 '22

Javascript: Concept of OOP in ES5 vs ES6

#javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Necati Özmen for Refine

Nov 4 '22

esbuild - Next-generation JavaScript bundler

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

7 min read

GingerKiwi

Nov 5 '22

Learn GitHub Workflows and Open Source the Fun Way: The Alice in Wonderland Project

#github #beginners #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Maxim Nosov ✪

Nov 5 '22

Testing the tool

#testing #opensource #javascript #jest

2 min read

sfrunza13

Nov 5 '22

Lab7: Format and Lint

#beginners #opensource #python

9 min read

Nov 4 '22

Hacktoberfest 2022 Rewind ▶▶▶

#showdev #hacktoberfest #opensource #community

2 min read

Nov 4 '22

The case of missing message ID

#opensource #hacktoberfest #mattermost #community

2 min read

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