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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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Jul 22 '21

How to start your open source journey with UNICEF?

#opensource #github #webdev

4 min read

Jul 13 '21

Poke: A Super Handy HTTP Request Library

#node #javascript #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Jul 22 '21

Hoppscotch is celebrating 30,000 GitHub Stars 🎉

#opensource

3 min read

Jul 23 '21

OpenTelemetry: A Way to Achieve Observability

#opensource #opentelemetry #visibility #metrics

5 min read

Spoorti-Kotrashetti

Jul 23 '21

My Role in the Project: part-1.1

#python #java #middleware #opensource

2 min read

Jul 22 '21

Realtime express chat in 2021

#javascript #react #opensource #github

1 min read

Jul 15 '21

Top 10 open-source SaaS that could help you build the next big thing

#opensource #beginners #webdev

3 min read

Jul 21 '21

Week 4 of Coding Period in GSoC

#opensource #gsoc #meteor #brlcad

2 min read

Gio

Jul 21 '21

Get Paid To Work On Open Source

#typescript #opensource #functional

1 min read

Jul 20 '21

Appwrite with Angular SSR

#opensource #tutorial #webdev #angular

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jul 19 '21

AWS open source news and updates #76

#opensource #aws

14 min read

Thamara Andrade

Jul 19 '21

Code Annotation: a VSCode extension for adding notes on your code without commiting

#vscode #extension #github #opensource

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jul 19 '21

Luos new release 1.3.0

#embedded #embeddedsystems #opensource #luos

1 min read

Vihar Kurama for Appsmith

Jul 30 '21

Introducing the all-new SnowflakeDB Integration on Appsmith

#opensource #javascript #snowflake #lowcode

2 min read

Itheum

Jul 17 '21

Itheum WhitePaper

#blockchain #web3 #opensource

93 min read

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