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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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Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Oct 1 '22

Hacktoberfest is here — and this is the lowdown

#hacktoberfest #meta #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Ushakov Michael for Wissance

Oct 12 '22

Make you Go code work 1.5x faster OR even more

#performance #go #opensource #programming

3 min read

Sylwia Vargas for StackBlitz

Oct 11 '22

One-click treat for Open Source maintainers

#hacktoberfest #opensource #tooling #javascript

2 min read

Oct 12 '22

How I launched Impulse.dev

#opensource #launch #react #tailwindcss

9 min read

Aviv Mor for krud.dev

Oct 12 '22

Introducing ShapeShift: A lightweight, modular, performant and extensible object mapping library for Kotlin/Java

#java #kotlin #opensource #architecture

3 min read

Oct 12 '22

How to build your own MQTT broker in Nest.js

#mqtt #opensource #nestjs #javascript

11 min read

Ekekenta Odionyenfe Clinton for Medusa

Oct 18 '22

How to Build a Video Game Store with Medusa and Next.js

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

9 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

kuberdenis

Oct 11 '22

Hacktoberfest: No shame in low-code (or no-code)!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #writing #lowcode

2 min read

Oct 11 '22

Free alternatives to Heroku

#heroku #opensource #devops #elixir

2 min read

Oct 9 '22

Funding in open source

#discuss #opensource #career

5 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 2 '22

Tremor - Free React Library for Dashboards

#react #opensource #dashboards

2 min read

TheWizKid for krud.dev

Oct 11 '22

Good code is like an onion, it has layers

#programming #career #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Oct 11 '22

Medusa 1.5.0: PriceList Import, Medusa Hackathon, and more!

#news #opensource #javascript #programming

4 min read

Nevo David

Oct 7 '22

I Turned My Startup Into Open-Source

#javascript #programming #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Suhail Kakar for Medusa

Oct 10 '22

How I Created a React Native Ecommerce App for Medusa's Hackathon

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

14 min read

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