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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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Estee Tey

Nov 3 '22

My Hacktoberfest Experience For The Third Time: 2022 Edition

#hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie #community

8 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Nov 2 '22

Should Open Source be a rite of passage for developers?

#opensource #programming #devops #agile

1 min read

Abdur Rehman Khalid

Oct 22 '22

Design Patterns in Software Development

#tutorial #opensource #productivity #community

3 min read

SnykSec for Snyk

Nov 14 '22

Update: OpenSSL high severity vulnerabilities

#applicationsecurity #engineering #opensource #vulnerabilities

4 min read

TD

Nov 2 '22

OSD600 - Learning Docusaurus & using reMarkable to parse markdown

#opensource #beginners #markdown #ssg

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Nov 2 '22

Luos wins the 7th wave of the i-Nov 2021 competition

#opensource #microservices #luos #programming

1 min read

Benjamin DeCoste

Nov 2 '22

Customizing nushell prompt

#nushell #programming #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Napptive

Nov 2 '22

Top 10 Best Kubernetes Resources

#kubernetes #opensource

4 min read

Johannes Dienst for AskUI

Nov 2 '22

Tutorial: Zip Images and Upload Them to Google Drive On Windows With AskUI

#testing #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Manik

Nov 1 '22

GNU Project and Linux- The Reasons For A Thriving Community

#programming #linux #opensource

6 min read

Saifur Rahman Mohsin

Nov 2 '22

Fixing a broken youtube live video download

#youtube #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Oct 28 '22

Dev.to en español

#opensource #spanish #español #espanol

1 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 31 '22

Django Dynamic DataTables - Free Library

#webdev #django #tools #opensource

2 min read

Jonathan Reimer for crowd.dev

Oct 31 '22

We raised €2.2M to launch the open-source platform for growing developer communities

#news #community #opensource

5 min read

TD

Nov 2 '22

OSD600- Improving Siteit through refactoring and upgrading to ESM

#opensource #ssg #javascript #es6

3 min read

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