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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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Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Nov 19 '23

Contribute to UI Enhancement

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Oct 20 '23

Open Source Unleashed: A Guide to Empowering Your Career and Contributions

#opensource #beginners #hacktoberfest #tutorial

3 min read

Nov 18 '23

Adding CI for testing the code

#javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Alex Pustovalov

Nov 18 '23

Building a Robust Web Platform on AWS

#devjournal #aws #cdk #opensource

2 min read

Oct 26 '23

🔥 9 Open-Source Repos That Will Make Your SaaS Gold 🤔

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Philip How for The DEV Team

Nov 17 '23

DEV Community Contributor Spotlight: @joaogabriel55

#meta #opensource #devcontributors

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Nov 16 '23

Our Hacktoberfest Success Story

#opensource #hacktoberfest

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Nov 7 '23

A Complete Guide to Getting Started in Open Source

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners

4 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Nov 17 '23

Setting up Continuous Integration

#devops #opensource #githubactions #cicd

9 min read

Yousef

Nov 18 '23

GitHub Actions Workflow

#dotnet #opensource #beginners #tutorial

3 min read

Namatuzio

Nov 18 '23

CI/CD Part 2: GitHub Actions

#testing #opensource #beginners #githubactions

4 min read

Nov 22 '23

LetsGo - a starter kit for starting startups

#devops #aws #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Alex for OpenSign

Jul 11 '24

The 50 best open-source alternatives to popular SaaS software

#opensource #saas #webdev #javascript

10 min read

Nov 17 '23

Try to find an open-source Spring Boot project suitable for beginners

#opensource #java #springboot

4 min read

Vijay Varadarajan

Oct 28 '23

HacktoberFest Open-Source Contributor

#hack23contributor #webdev #opensource #documentation

1 min read

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