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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 8 '22

I made 1,000x faster TypeScript Validator Library

#javascript #typescript #opensource #benchmark

4 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Oct 19 '22

Contribute to open source without knowing how to code

#opensource #design #beginners #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Oct 23 '22

Challenges, Solutions and more Challenges and more Solutions

#opensource #go #perl #github

7 min read

Anoop M D

Oct 23 '22

Launching Bruno - Local-first Opensource API Client (postman alternative)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

2 min read

Oct 24 '22

Google Developers Student Club - MET collaborates with Newton School

#programming #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Megabit

Oct 3 '22

20-line of code HTTP server

#programming #webdev #opensource #github

2 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 22 '22

Django API Generator - Free PyPI Library

#webdev #django #opensource #tools

2 min read

Ege Aytin

Oct 20 '22

Google Zanzibar In A Nutshell

#go #opensource #webdev #docker

9 min read

aschenbecherwespe for ReductStore

Oct 22 '22

Reduct Storage Python Client Release v1.0.0

#reductstorage #python #database #opensource

1 min read

Budibase

Oct 11 '22

Budibase Hackathon Update - Over $5K in prizes 🎉

#hackathon #beginners #opensource

1 min read

And Go Web Solutions | AGWS

Oct 21 '22

TO-DO List - CRUD Full Stack in Ionic Type Script React and Parse Back4app

#javascript #opensource #typescript #ionic

9 min read

VivekS.

Oct 21 '22

Completed #Hacktoberfest 2022 !

#hacktoberfest #digitialocean #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Oct 21 '22

How I used Marqo to create a multilingual legal database in 5 key lines of code

#python #machinelearning #ai #opensource

6 min read

Oct 10 '22

Install and Configure VNC on Ubuntu 20.04

#opensource #ubuntu #vnc

6 min read

Oct 20 '22

May the merge be with you - Hacktoberfest 🎃

#beginners #programming #opensource #hacktoberfest

4 min read

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