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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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Quine

Oct 15 '21

We measured maintainer response time in Issues and PRs for 90k GitHub repos

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github

2 min read

Cillian

Oct 15 '21

Devtools for Data Privacy — Step 1: Privacy Taxonomy V1.0

#showdev #dataprivacy #opensource

13 min read

Pierre Lalanne for GitGuardian

Oct 15 '21

Why detecting generic credentials is a game changer

#security #opensource #cybersecurity

6 min read

Oct 15 '21

How I get into Open Source?

#beginners #opensource #productivity #career

3 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Oct 12 '21

If You're Reading This, Contribute to Forem

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #forem

3 min read

Oct 14 '21

Four projects to contribute to this Hacktoberfest 🎃

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #githunt

3 min read

Jay Gordon for Microsoft Azure

Oct 14 '21

AzureFunBytes Episode 60 – DevOps Solutions on @Azure with @TheAprilEdwards

#devops #cloud #azure #opensource

5 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 14 '21

Join us for Hacktoberfest and Win 1 of the 10 special Creative Tim prizes

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Anish De

Oct 14 '21

The Joy of Contributing to Open Source

#opensource #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 14 '21

I Made A Game In 72 Hours That Uses GitHub Issues To Crowd Source Maps

#gamedev #opensource #github #pixelvision8

7 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Oct 13 '21

Datadog vs Grafana (2025) - Costs, Use Cases, and Key Differences

#monitoring #devops #opensource #tooling

9 min read

Oct 12 '21

Start your Open Source Journey with Git

#github #hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Oct 14 '21

🆕 feature in the Luos release 2.0.0: embedded packages to simplify portability

#opensource #embedded #luos #release

1 min read

Oct 9 '21

Peregrine Rewrite - The python-like language that's as fast as C

#showdev #c #programming #opensource

3 min read

Hillary Nyakundi

Oct 13 '21

The Do's and Don'ts of Front-End Documentation

#opensource #documentation #programming #productivity

4 min read

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