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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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Luke Hager

May 5 '22

Using Git trailers, grep, and cherry-pick to generate unlimited combinations of features, stacks, and platforms

#showdev #git #productivity #opensource

9 min read

Leon Nunes for Kubernetes Community Days Chennai

May 5 '22

Using Prowler to Audit your AWS account for vulnerabilities.

#opensource #kcdchennai #devops #aws

2 min read

May 5 '22

PyCamp 2022 - Going camping without bugs

#python #community #devjournal #opensource

2 min read

CYN

May 4 '22

Explore Deep in 4.6 Billion GitHub Events

#opensource #github

8 min read

May 4 '22

Video to gif converter using Wasm

#discuss #opensource #webassembly #javascript

6 min read

Alex Patterson for Builder.io

May 4 '22

A Quick Guide to Mitosis: Why You Need It and How You Can Use It

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

ViperT

May 4 '22

Resize Images in JS FAST! (Using browser multi-threading)

#javascript #opensource #html #algorithms

3 min read

dbelokon

Apr 23 '22

Getting a little bit technical!

#opensource

4 min read

Matej Bačo for Appwrite

May 3 '22

Why Discord Is a Must-Have for OSS

#discord #opensource #github #webdev

6 min read

Kaiwalya Koparkar for Elestio

Oct 11 '23

Gitlab SaaS Free tier is now limited to 5 users. What can you do?

#opensource #elestio #gitlab #saas

5 min read

Apr 13 '22

Godot Modules (C#) - A Set of Useful Modules / Scripts to Kickstart Your Game

#csharp #opensource #gamedev #programming

1 min read

May 3 '22

TMStats: Trackmania Tracker

#appwritehack #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

May 3 '22

Release 1.9.14 of Perl distribution Crypt::OpenSSL::X509

#perl #release #opensource

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

May 3 '22

How to build a search input component with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial #webdev

4 min read

May 3 '22

Getting started with Open Source contributions - What, Why, How

#opensource #roadmaps #beginners #career

5 min read

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