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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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Nathan

Apr 11 '22

Is RUST Irrelevant??

#rust #api #opensource #blstsecurity

3 min read

gus

Apr 12 '22

Adding SVE2 Support to an Open Source Library - Part II

#opensource #assembly #assemblylanguage #sve2

4 min read

Neeesh

Apr 11 '22

How to get a job using Rust (and other questions)

#rust #opensource #career

2 min read

Apr 11 '22

Review: Saleor vs Medusa Two Opensource Headless Ecommerce Platforms

#javascript #medusa #webdev #opensource

11 min read

Apr 11 '22

GitLab architecture 2022

#mermaid #gitlab #seo #opensource

2 min read

Apr 10 '22

Self Hostable Open Source Alternatives to Commercial products

#opensource #security #privacy #product

1 min read

Sm0ke

Apr 1 '22

React NodeJS Soft Dashboard - Open-Source Full-Stack Starter

#webdev #react #node #opensource

2 min read

Apr 11 '22

Seeing the finish line

#opensource

3 min read

Apache ShardingSphere

Apr 11 '22

A Deep Dive Into Observability —Apache ShardingSphere Agent

#database #devops #opensource #monitoring

5 min read

Vincent Villaluna

Apr 8 '22

How will you understand Large Opensource Code base ?

#discuss #opensource #programming

1 min read

Sm0ke

Apr 5 '22

Open-Source Dashboards - React, Vue3, Bootstrap 5, Tailwind

#opensource #dashboards #webdev

4 min read

Ryan Cartwright

Apr 11 '22

Building a To-do App for the cloud with Nitric

#nextjs #typescript #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Ushieru Kokoran

Apr 10 '22

Total POS - DataBase

#flutter #opensource #spanish #totalpos

2 min read

julia ferraioli

Apr 10 '22

Why your git email address matters

#opensource #git #bestpractices #transparency

2 min read

Apr 10 '22

An Intro To Git

#opensource #beginners

1 min read

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