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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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Oct 27 '21

it's octoLIT

#javascript #github #opensource

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 27 '21

Contribute to Flyte for Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #machinelearning #database

3 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 25 '21

Bootstrap 5 Material Dashboard - Free Resources

#webdev #material #dashboards #opensource

3 min read

Oct 27 '21

Code Smell 97 - Error Messages Without Empathy

#opensource #ux #programming #javascript

1 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Oct 26 '21

Reminder: Hacktoberfest is Ending Soon!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

2 min read

Zakaria El Asri for Medusa

Oct 26 '21

Blazing-fast product search w. MeiliSearch and Medusa

#opensource #javascript #headless #ecommerce

5 min read

Rahul Chhabria for Sentry

Oct 26 '21

We Gave $154,999.89 to Open Source Maintainers

#opensource #monitoring

5 min read

Oct 26 '21

How I started my Opensource journey with just 1 line of code!

#opensource #beginners #github #hacktoberfest

9 min read

Mannuel

Oct 26 '21

Typesense and React, Typesense an open-source alternative to Algolia and Elasticsearch

#javascript #search #react #opensource

3 min read

Joe Groom

Oct 26 '21

Any trouble debugging in Golang?

#go #webdev #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 25 '21

AWS open source news and updates #87

#opensource #aws

11 min read

Oct 25 '21

Local Kubernetes development made easy with Minikube - Devtron

#opensource #kubernetes #devops #webdev

4 min read

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Nov 6 '21

Showcase your project at Git Commit Show

#webdev #programming #opensource #github

1 min read

Oct 25 '21

Introducing WebAPIs Playground - An app to play and learn Web APIs

#opensource #nextjs #tailwindcss #react

4 min read

Oct 25 '21

removing lodash

#javascript #opensource #npm

2 min read

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