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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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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 19 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #161

#opensource #aws

18 min read

Ali Navidi

Jun 19 '23

Introducing Westernal: A social media based on songs (part 2)

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

John Rush

Jun 19 '23

DevHunt, Best way to promote your Dev Tool or Open Source project

#devhunt #opensource #devtools #marketing

2 min read

Hung Vu

Jun 19 '23

I virtualize OpenWRT in Harvester HCI, and it was a long story...

#opensource #devops #testing #tutorial

14 min read

Jun 19 '23

Releasy weekend

#release #opensource #maintainer #weekend

3 min read

Iván González Dávila

Jun 19 '23

Social-GPT: The Open Source Social Media AI Writer

#opensource #gpt3 #openai #socialmedia

3 min read

Marc Duiker for Diagrid

Jun 19 '23

Dapr v1.11 Release Highlights

#opensource #cloudnative #cloud #architecture

7 min read

Jonathan Reimer for crowd.dev

Jun 19 '23

What are Developer Relations? with Tanay Pant (ex Okta, n8n, Crate)

#opensource #developerled #devrel

3 min read

Gianluca

Jun 19 '23

Sveltos: Simplifying Kubernetes Add-on Deployment and Constraints

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #openapi

4 min read

Jun 19 '23

Chaos Engineering: Efficient Way to Improve System Availability

#opensource #database #shardingsphere #chaosengineering

8 min read

Roktim Kamal Senapoty

Jun 17 '23

10 Javascript tips and tricks

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

ADAMU MUHAMMAD MUHAMMAD

May 19 '23

Geek ink Empowering Tech Enthusiasts

#githubhack23 #opensource #onprogress

3 min read

Bhavya Verma for BuildShip

Jun 16 '23

Build an AI MicroSaaS App using a Low-Code Template Integrated with Stripe

#tutorial #opensource #codenewbie #cloud

10 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jun 14 '23

How to Start an Open Source Project with VS Code

#codenewbie #beginners #opensource #vscode

4 min read

Jun 18 '23

QuickNode: Supercharging Your Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL Projects

#node #typescript #postgres #opensource

2 min read

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