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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.

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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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Timonwa Akintokun

Oct 11 '23

Hacktoberfest Etiquette and Best Practices: A Guide for First-time Contributors

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners #hacktoberfest23

6 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 for SWIRL

Oct 4 '23

7 Open-Source Search Engines for your Enterprise and Startups you MUST know.

#opensource #python #javascript #java

5 min read

Oct 11 '23

Introducing GitHub Cards API: A simple way to create beautiful cards with random quotes and jokes

#hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest #github #opensource

3 min read

Oct 11 '23

PostgreSQL and its ACID features: A Comprehensive Guide

#opensource #database #postgres #agedb

3 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Oct 11 '23

CrabNebula Raised a 7.5m Seed Round with OSS Capital and over 20 Angel Investors

#opensource #tauri #rust

4 min read

alisdairbr for Koyeb

Oct 11 '23

Monitor your Websites and Apps using Uptime Kuma

#opensource #monitoring #webdev #tutorial

15 min read

Indrajith Bandara

Oct 11 '23

A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting a Cyber Security Risk Assessment

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #cybersecurity

4 min read

Neel

Oct 10 '23

Document search tool for Github repos built with React, Supabase and LLAMA2

#react #ai #javascript #opensource

14 min read

yogini16

Oct 11 '23

Dapr: Transforming Microservices into Magic with Real-World Wizardry

#dapr #opensource #dotnet #developer

4 min read

OpenSource

Oct 9 '23

Is Open Source communism?

#jokes #opensource #programming #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Josef Andersson

Oct 10 '23

The "linear git commit history with signing in GitHub-UI"-workaround

#github #git #opensource #workaround

3 min read

Oct 11 '23

Top 10 growing data visualization libraries in Python in 2023

#datascience #python #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Aindree Chatterjee

Oct 10 '23

Hacktoberfest- The Gateway to Open Source

#hacktoberfest23 #hackathon #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Andrii Romasiun

Oct 11 '23

The Tech Stack of an Open Source Web Analytics SaaS

#analytics #opensource #saas #startup

4 min read

Oct 7 '23

HacktoberFest Week One

#opensource #css #hacktoberfest23

2 min read

DR

Oct 6 '23

So I might be doing this wrong...

#discuss #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

2 min read

Rose Media House

Oct 10 '23

⚡Socketioxide - SocketIO server powered by Rust! 🦀

#rust #socketio #opensource #github

3 min read

Davor Runje for airt

Oct 9 '23

How we deprecated two successful projects and joined forces to create an even more successful one

#opensource #python #programming #webdev

3 min read

Luqman Bello for AWS Community Builders

Oct 10 '23

Managing AWS EKS Clusters Locally Using Lens

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #aws

3 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Oct 10 '23

Hacktoberfest #02

#hacktoberfest23 #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Scott Nath

Oct 10 '23

Profile Components: display social profiles in native web components

#webcomponents #opensource #javascript #css

7 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Oct 9 '23

Open Source ABCs: Workflow

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Timonwa Akintokun

Oct 10 '23

Making Your First Open-source Contribution: A Beginner's Guide

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #hacktoberfest23

4 min read

Max Shen

Oct 10 '23

Build a Neovim plugin in Lua 🌙

#neovim #vim #editor #opensource

3 min read

Oct 10 '23

Open Source Projects: A Journey Through Time and Triumphs

#opensource #linux #techhistory

3 min read

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