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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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Pascal Thormeier

Nov 10 '22

dev.to codes! Collaborative coding experiment: The most liked comment picks the next line of code, day 3

#programming #community #opensource #ruby

1 min read

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

Dec 4 '22

You're running an online conference but get called out for having an all-male speaker lineup 2 days prior. Yo, What do you do?

#webdev #opensource #devto

5 min read

Fazza Razaq Amiarso

Nov 13 '22

What I learned from Building Invoys, an Open Source Invoice Management App

#webdev #opensource #javascript #nextjs

5 min read

Krisztián Maurer

Nov 13 '22

My DI container ✨ type-chef-di

#typescript #programming #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Chimildic

Nov 13 '22

Make Spotify better

#showdev #javascript #opensource #appsscript

3 min read

Niclas

Nov 13 '22

Using Ory Keto to secure NestJS backends

#opensource #webdev #security

5 min read

MakendranG

Nov 13 '22

Nhost: The Perfect Backend 101: The Essential Guide

#beginners #tutorial #devops #opensource

9 min read

L2ncE

Nov 13 '22

Interpretation of Open Source Go HTTP Framework | Service Registration Extension Implementation

#webdev #beginners #go #opensource

4 min read

Justin Patriquin

Nov 1 '22

Do you have any ideas for confidential computing?

#discuss #webdev #opensource #devops

1 min read

anshul137

Nov 2 '22

DPS909 Blog :LAB 7 Intro to Static Analysis

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 11 '22

Argon Dashboard BS5 - Free Theme for Django

#webdev #django #opensource #appseed

1 min read

Nov 1 '22

Creating a Go SDK for Buildable.dev (Part 1)

#programming #go #opensource

2 min read

Nov 12 '22

How to use Babel's new addExternalDependency API

#javascript #reactnative #opensource #node

2 min read

Nov 12 '22

Go Project Source Code Analysis: Schedule Job Library "cron"

#go #opensource #github

4 min read

Nov 27 '22

Introducing TF WhatsUp, a Tool for Better Terraform Notes

#terraform #opensource #dotnet #nuget

1 min read

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