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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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Abdullah Al Mamun Fahim

Oct 28 '24

Hacktoberfest Recap

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

2 min read

Eshan Roy (eshanized)

Dec 1 '24

Mastering Git with Conventional Commits 🌟

#github #git #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Nov 29 '24

Building your Portfolio in 2025

#webdev #opensource #svelte #tutorial

2 min read

Nov 28 '24

Understanding Open-Source Licenses

#opensource #github #softwaredevelopment

6 min read

Abdullah Al Mamun Fahim

Oct 27 '24

Hacktoberfest week 4

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

2 min read

Abdullah Al Mamun Fahim

Oct 27 '24

Hacktoberfest week 3

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

2 min read

Oct 31 '24

Daily Drawing Challenge: A Creative Journey with Tolgee

#webdev #opensource #hacktoberfest #nextjs

1 min read

Vault Developer

Oct 27 '24

Event loop visualiser for lerners

#javascript #frontend #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Manish

Jan 17 '25

🎙️I built "GitPodcast" to help devs understand 💡any GitHub repo easily

#productivity #opensource #ai #podcast

2 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Nov 18 '24

Congrats to the 2024 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge Winners!

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Dec 12 '24

Advanced value-based validation in Rust for Node.js apps

#typescript #node #opensource #javascript

3 min read

AnhChienVu

Nov 29 '24

Continuous Progress in Adding new Feature for ImprovedTub

#javascript #opensource #improvedtub #chromeextensions

5 min read

Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Nov 25 '24

Astro Minimal: start with this template 🫣

#opensource #astro #programming #frontend

2 min read

Fathiraz Arthuro

Nov 29 '24

My First Time Contributing to Homebrew: Adding Windsurf IDE

#ruby #opensource #ai

9 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Nov 29 '24

Ollama and Web-LLM: Building Your Own Local AI Search Assistant

#llm #ai #opensource

8 min read

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