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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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Nov 4 '24

Building a Redis Clone: A Deep Dive into In-Memory Data Storage

#opensource #redis #go #rust

3 min read

Ken Yip

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Crafting a Scalable Node.js API: Insights from My RealWorld Project with Express, Knex, and AWS CDK

#cdk #typescript #node #opensource

5 min read

Manish Kr Prasad

Oct 24 '24

"Rate Limiting, Simplified": My Journey with Unkey, the Open-Source API Management Platform

#ratelimiting #opensource #typescript #webdev

2 min read

Deeksha

Oct 31 '24

My First Hacktoberfest: I Finally Took the Plunge!

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 2 '24

How did a dumbo become an Open-Source contributor 🪔

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

6 min read

Nov 4 '24

Install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu

#docker #opensource #devops #ubuntu

4 min read

Carrie

Nov 4 '24

What is a Reverse Proxy

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Shree4226

Oct 31 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey: Growth, Collaboration, and New Beginnings 🌱

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

KISHORE K

Oct 30 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey: A Reflection on Contributor Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Akarshan Kapoor

Nov 4 '24

PAPPL Scan API Bridging: GSoC 2024 Project Report 🖨️🧑‍💻

#linux #opensource #gsoc24

4 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Nov 4 '24

AIM Weekly for 04Nov2024

#opensource #vectordatabase #llm #rag

5 min read

Nov 4 '24

My Journey to dream: 4096 ⭐ on GitHub

#opensource #devhunt #development #github

2 min read

Mark Seif

Oct 31 '24

I didn't know it was this exciting !

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Charan

Nov 3 '24

Story of an open source newbie + lessons learnt

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

6 min read

Remi for Pixium Digital

Nov 4 '24

Discovery: Screenity - A powerful open-source screen capture tool

#webdev #productivity #software #opensource

2 min read

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