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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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Fridolín Pokorný

Feb 13 '22

Why PyPI Doesn't Know Your Projects Dependencies but Thoth Does

#python #programming #opensource #security

5 min read

Kazuki Yonemoto

Feb 13 '22

Starter template with Vite and TypeScript for front-end projects (VITAM)

#webdev #vite #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Joie

Feb 13 '22

Python: Building An Offline Random Name Picker

#python #programming #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Joshuauche

Feb 12 '22

Python 101: Ultimate Python Guide or Introduction to Modern Python

#python #opensource #tutorial #productivity

2 min read

watsuyo

Feb 12 '22

New Release: Notion RSS Reader🎁

#opensource #typescript #node #notion

1 min read

Jack Aboutboul for AlmaLinux

Feb 12 '22

AlmaLinux now available on Microsoft Azure. Azure Sponsors AlmaLinux!

#almalinux #opensource #linux #centos

2 min read

Sm0ke

Feb 11 '22

Introspecting Legacy Databases - Open-Source Tool

#opensource #tools #python #database

2 min read

Feb 8 '22

Effective Session Management using Supertokens

#security #opensource #webdev #programming

7 min read

Gourav Khunger for Genics Blog

Feb 11 '22

Genics Log #1: Sponsorship from BeyondWords, Open Source, Organic Stats and more

#news #opensource

4 min read

Sm0ke

Feb 9 '22

Django - Curated List with popular extensions

#django #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Štěpán Granát for Tolgee

Feb 8 '22

Is Turborepo overhyped?

#javascript #webdev #opensource #performance

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 10 '22

Contributing to the Apache Airflow project

#opensource

16 min read

Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Feb 9 '22

Backstage on the revamp of our Admin to become #1 on PH and GitHub Trending

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Bradley Schofield for Appwrite

Feb 9 '22

Bidding farewell to Appwrite's Tasks Service 👋

#javascript #programming #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Sergey Kikevich

Feb 10 '22

Open-source in finance. Okama project

#python #opensource #finance #datascience

3 min read

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