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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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Okoye Ndidiamaka

Jan 13 '25

Contributing to Open Source: How to Get Started and Make an Impact

#opensource #coding #github #programming

4 min read

arinak1017

Dec 10 '24

The Open Source Finale: Pt. 2

#opensource

7 min read

Jan 13 '25

What I learned managing my first open source

#opensource #tutorial #learning #github

7 min read

Dec 10 '24

Mouse meets Python: Welcome to the Jungle

#opensource #python

1 min read

Jan 13 '25

Golang Dependency Injection - Just in 5 Minutes!

#go #webdev #opensource #programming

3 min read

Jan 13 '25

lodash._merge vs Defu

#typescript #opensource #lodash #arrays

3 min read

Dec 10 '24

GQL— Write SQL queries in your Git repo!

#opensource #programming #backend #tutorial

3 min read

Uday Rana

Dec 10 '24

Doing More Open Source Stuff: Making Up For Lost Time

#opensource #javascript #android #linux

4 min read

Terry W

Jan 12 '25

Creating My First NPM Package: CLI Dev Tool

#npm #opensource #webdev #cli

3 min read

TheoForger

Dec 10 '24

December Is Going Well!

#opensource #beginners #rust

4 min read

Dec 10 '24

Scalable Image Comparison: An Open-Source Java Library

#java #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Dec 9 '24

A Final Challenge: Release

#opensource #github #programming #typescript

4 min read

Devam Chaudhari

Jan 12 '25

Streamline Your GitHub Issues: Custom Issue Templates Made Easy

#webdev #github #productivity #opensource

3 min read

sred

Jan 11 '25

Help Shape a Platform for Student Collaboration and Open-Source Contribution! 🌟

#opensource #collaboration

1 min read

Hasan

Jan 11 '25

TDD: No, Not Test-Driven Development; Let’s Talk Technical Design Documents

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

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