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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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Tom Tsagk

Aug 1 '21

My newest open source video game: "Rue"

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #opensource

1 min read

Jul 31 '21

GSoC First Evaluations: All You Need to Know

#opensource #programming #webdev #typescript

3 min read

Adam Gordon Bell

Jul 30 '21

Beating TimSort at Merging

#python #computerscience #cpp #opensource

7 min read

Jul 30 '21

Chatwoot - Localization of Chats

#opensource #chatwoot #crowdin #customersupport

3 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Jul 30 '21

Self-host Appsmith in Just a Few Minutes on Digital Ocean

#devops #opensource #digitalocean

3 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Jul 30 '21

Say Hello to our New ArangoDB Integration

#database #opensource #javascript #tools

3 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Jul 30 '21

Embed Anything! Introducing the New iFrame Widget

#html #opensource #lowcode

3 min read

Joe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Jul 29 '21

Create a PHP composer package | How to

#php #opensource

3 min read

Jul 29 '21

How to setup OBS for live streaming, presentations, and virtual meetings

#obs #tutorial #github #opensource

4 min read

Jul 29 '21

Release 1.56 of perl-workflow, a bug fix release

#perl #opensource #release

2 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Jul 28 '21

Top 13 open source Application Performance Monitoring(APM) tools in 2021

#devops #opensource #sre #monitoring

12 min read

davidkohn88 for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jul 29 '21

What time-weighted averages are and why you should care

#datascience #database #postgres #opensource

22 min read

Amrut

Jul 29 '21

Checkpoint

#programming #github #opensource #100daysofcode

1 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jul 29 '21

New Luos feature: add access management to container.

#embedded #opensource #container #luos

1 min read

Jul 20 '21

How to hide Feature A and show Feature B for different users in React

#beginners #webdev #opensource #react

5 min read

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