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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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Osahenru

Oct 26 '22

Getting started with your first open source project

#opensource #github #git #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Oct 25 '22

I built a dev.to stats card generator (followers & views count)

#opensource #node #javascript #community

2 min read

Misha

Oct 26 '22

Is your package.json safe?

#javascript #opensource #security

2 min read

ainunrfy

Oct 26 '22

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Open Sourse dan Close Source, Distribusi Linux, Virtualisasi vs Container vs BareMetal Service

#linux #opensource #virtualisasi #redhat

4 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 24 '22

Dynamic API for Django - Free PyPi Library

#webdev #django #opensource #tools

4 min read

Joysankar Majumdar

Oct 25 '22

Importing Ghost Blog Users to Appwrite

#appwrite #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

EMQ Technologies for EMQ Technologies

Oct 25 '22

How to Install an MQTT Broker on Ubuntu

#ubuntu #mqtt #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Meteor Software

Oct 25 '22

How to update your app that uses an old version of MeteorJS?

#javascript #node #meteor #opensource

3 min read

Hung Vu

Oct 25 '22

AMD GPU does not always offer the best experience on Linux 🐞

#news #linux #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

Nevo David for novu

Oct 24 '22

Building a Notion-like system with Socket.io And React 😍

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

19 min read

Genne23v

Oct 25 '22

My Reasons Why I Should Do Open Source Project

#opensource #senecaosd600 #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 24 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #132

#opensource #aws

18 min read

Oct 8 '22

I made 1,000x faster TypeScript Validator Library

#javascript #typescript #opensource #benchmark

4 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Oct 19 '22

Contribute to open source without knowing how to code

#opensource #design #beginners #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Oct 23 '22

Challenges, Solutions and more Challenges and more Solutions

#opensource #go #perl #github

7 min read

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