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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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Adewale Abati for CodeSandbox

Sep 26 '22

How to get started with Hacktoberfest

#codesandbox #hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Pramit Marattha

Sep 25 '22

26 best practices to secure your cloud environment☁️🔥

#cloud #security #beginners #opensource

15 min read

Sep 26 '22

Announcing Hack-R-Play: Hackathon to build, write, and connect

#react #opensource #beginners #webdev

6 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Sep 23 '22

My First GitHub Pull Request

#opensource #programming #github #python

3 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 22 '22

Django API Generator - Open-Source Project

#webdev #django #generator #opensource

1 min read

Avi Avinav

Sep 20 '22

Tell me about some underrated OSS projects

#watercooler #programming #opensource

1 min read

acode123

Sep 8 '22

👋How to convert ANY website into a desktop application(In 30 Seconds)

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #codenewbie

2 min read

Andy Piper

Sep 21 '22

Talking tech, Open Source, and community (over coffee)

#opensource #podcast #career #devrel

2 min read

Sep 23 '22

Mac OS for the Web!

#opensource #javascript #react #webdev

1 min read

Sep 24 '22

Let's try Asciinema

#tooling #dev #opensource #bash

2 min read

Ludovic DEHON for Kestra

Oct 5 '22

Snowflake data pipeline with Kestra

#news #opensource #sql #cloud

6 min read

Felix Schuster for Edgeless Systems

Sep 23 '22

We built the first always (!) encrypted K8s 🔐

#kubernetes #opensource #security #cloud

3 min read

Nevo David for novu

Sep 20 '22

HackSquad 2022 - Contribute, Meet, Participate, and win SWAG 🤯

#webdev #beginners #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Erika Heidi for Chainguard

Sep 22 '22

Container Images for the Cloud Native Era

#containers #opensource #linux #security

4 min read

Nathan for BLST

Sep 22 '22

Cherrybomb for OWASP Conference 😁 🥳

#opensource #api #security #rust

1 min read

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