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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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Ankan Saha

Oct 31 '22

About OAuth 2.0

#auth #webdev #opensource #security

1 min read

SnykSec for Snyk

Nov 14 '22

New OpenSSL critical vulnerability: What you need to know

#opensource #vulnerabilities #openssl

5 min read

Maxim Nosov ✪

Oct 30 '22

Hacktoberfest Summary

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Oct 19 '22

Kubernetes Volumes: What They Are and How to Use Them

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Oct 25 '22

I made 10x faster JSON.stringify() functions, even type safe

#javascript #programming #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 26 '22

FastAPI - Open-Source Starters

#fastapi #opensource #webdev

2 min read

ViperT

Oct 29 '22

JSON VS CBOR (Javascript)

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Oct 27 '22

Medusa Hackathon Winner Announcement

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev #javascript

4 min read

Christopher Sandvik

Oct 28 '22

How I made my first successful open-source project

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

9 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 28 '22

AWS open source newsletter, #133

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Oct 28 '22

Building a Cybersecurity Game with Three.js - Inspired by Google’s Interland

#javascript #opensource #gamedev #cybersecurity

3 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Oct 27 '22

How Muay Thai and Powerlifting Made Me a Better Programmer 🥊🏋️‍♀️👩🏻‍💻 – Hacktoberfest Wrap-up!

#javascript #beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Adam Crockett 🌀

Oct 28 '22

🎭 Community engagement : submit issues in less time 🗳️⏱️

#todayilearned #github #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Oct 27 '22

Nightmare on Dev Street: Terrifying Situations to Make Your Spine Tingle

#programming #opensource #github #productivity

4 min read

Genne23v

Oct 28 '22

Adding Full Markdown Support and Sidebar Menu to My OpenSSG

#staticsitegenerator #java #opensource #docusaurus

2 min read

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