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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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Priyanshu mundra

Oct 5 '22

Hacktoberfest 2022 : A Complete Guide

#hacktoberfest #webdev #opensource #developer

3 min read

Nov 4 '22

A short summary of my first Hacktoberfest 🎃 🎉

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #beginners

3 min read

Manik

Nov 4 '22

How Did Linux Become So Popular

#webdev #linux #opensource #programming

5 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Nov 4 '22

What are your tips for developing ecommerce stores?

#discuss #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Valentin BEGGI for Serverless By Theodo

Nov 2 '22

Don’t be a CRUD boomer 👨‍🦳, check out this new Event Sourcing library!

#eventsourcing #typescript #opensource #aws

4 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Nov 1 '22

Some cool GitHub features to enhance your development experience

#github #opensource #tutorial #beginners

2 min read

Nov 4 '22

Free Geo location & IP API

#geolocati #api #freeapi #opensource

2 min read

Maximiliano Pizarro

Nov 2 '22

I got the Hacktoberfest 2022 badge

#challenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #community

1 min read

Safa Emhemed for Medusa

Nov 3 '22

9 Tips to Improve your Ecommerce User Experience

#opensource #webdev #javascript #programming

7 min read

SnykSec for Snyk

Nov 14 '22

Secure Python URL validation

#applicationsecurity #opensource

7 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Nov 3 '22

🎉 Luos surpasses 7000 members on Discord

#opensource #microservices #community #luos

1 min read

Nov 3 '22

Introducing User Roles Authorization with SuperTokens

#rbac #security #authentication #opensource

6 min read

Nov 3 '22

What is Roles-Based Access Control (RBAC)?

#security #authorization #authentication #opensource

3 min read

Avi Avinav for Medusa

Nov 1 '22

Remix & Shopify: Circumvent Shopify’s APIs and go open source

#opensource #javascript #webdev #programming

17 min read

Nov 2 '22

A to Z of git and GitHub

#github #git #opensource

4 min read

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