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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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lisahui

Sep 30 '21

Nebula Operator Kind, oneliner installer for Nebula K8s Operator Playground

#database #opensource #devops #sql

1 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Sep 29 '21

Discuss: Open Source Contribution Pain Points and Success?

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 24 '21

Building a Tailwind CSS alert component

#opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Aniket Pal

Sep 29 '21

Transform your smart devices to intelligent communicators

#opensource #programming #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 27 '21

Building a Tailwind CSS badge component

#tailwindcss #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Sep 29 '21

I made a CLI tool in Rust to play mechanical keyboard sound effects globally

#showdev #rust #sound #opensource

1 min read

Sep 28 '21

Open Source: As explained to a five-year-old

#github #opensource #dev

2 min read

Estee Tey

Sep 28 '21

The Open Source & Hacktoberfest Anthology🌻🔖

#opensource #beginners #webdev #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Aswin Gopinathan

Sep 28 '21

StringBuffer in Dart

#dart #flutter #opensource

3 min read

Nisha Srivastava

Sep 28 '21

Arctic Code Vault

#github #codenewbie #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Rakesh Santwani

Sep 27 '21

5 Best Places to find Hackathons!🧑‍💻

#javascript #codenewbie #opensource #programming

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 27 '21

AWS open source news and updates #83

#opensource #aws

12 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

ZigRazor

Sep 28 '21

Do you need a Automata Library ?

#discuss #cpp #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Sep 28 '21

Luos 2.0 is released to the world

#embedded #opensource #luos #release

1 min read

Paul Oms

Sep 28 '21

Free (MIT) Transactional HTML Email templates built using Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #html #email #opensource

2 min read

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