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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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Matt Angelosanto for LogRocket

Nov 5 '21

5 open source JavaScript datagrids for your next project

#javascript #webdev #opensource #programming

7 min read

Nov 5 '21

sifting thru the types

#javascript #graphql #opensource #node

4 min read

Nov 5 '21

Git basics: Your first commit to GitHub

#git #github #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Oct 28 '21

Building the first open-source notification infrastructure

#discuss #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Nov 3 '21

What Are DApps: A Complete Guide To Decentralized Applications

#javascript #beginners #programming #opensource

3 min read

Brian Thomas Smith for QuestDB

Nov 4 '21

QuestDB raises $12M Series A as the adoption of its time series database grows

#news #opensource #database #timeseries

4 min read

Nov 2 '21

Create Teams for Collaboration in Hoppscotch

#opensource #javascript #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Nov 4 '21

Writing your first Client-Server Program Quickly!

#beginners #tutorial #cpp #opensource

3 min read

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Nov 4 '21

Luos community is open!

#luos #embedded #community #opensource

1 min read

Astrodevil

Nov 3 '21

Open-Source Programs Students Can Apply To In November 2021

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #opensourceprograms

4 min read

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Video Dev-Team Blog

Nov 3 '21

Open source HLS proxy library for manifest manipulation

#opensource #node #programming #videostreaming

4 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Nov 1 '21

Congrats on an Inspiring Hacktoberfest 2021 🎃

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta #digitalocean

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Ayu Adiati

Nov 2 '21

What I Learned From Hacktoberfest 2021

#watercooler #hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie

5 min read

Nov 3 '21

Hello World In REACT NATIVE

#reactnative #react #opensource #android

1 min read

Yash Kumar Shrivas

Nov 3 '21

Hacktoberfest2021

#beginners #programming #opensource #github

1 min read

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