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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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Oct 3 '24

How to contribute to a large codebase?

#opensource #community #github

5 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Nov 1 '24

Goliath Dashboard Demo: Open Source Alternative

#astro #terraform #opensource #development

1 min read

Karina Babcock for Causely

Nov 1 '24

Observability talks sure to make waves at KubeCon

#observability #kubernetes #opensource

4 min read

Samy Fodil

Oct 31 '24

Spore Drive: Building a Cloud Platform in a Few Lines of Code

#cloudcomputing #devops #tooling #opensource

5 min read

Oct 28 '24

My Hactoberfest Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Marketa Cizmar for Tolgee

Oct 12 '24

8 Open-Source Tools to grow your app and reach new markets! 🔥

#webdev #beginners #opensource #learning

4 min read

Easy Tuts

Nov 1 '24

Quiz App Generator

#copilotkit #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Oct 31 '24

Reflecting on Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Docwire SDK’s Role in Bolstering Data Security

#cpp #cybersecurity #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Sep 28 '24

Fast-forward and three-way merges

#opensource #python #github #git

1 min read

Nov 1 '24

MYSQL GUI

#webdev #opensource #productivity #node

1 min read

Dávid Lukáč for Apify

Oct 29 '24

11 best open-source web crawlers and scrapers in 2024

#webscraping #javascript #python #opensource

14 min read

Sep 28 '24

Data factory for generative video models

#opensource #datascience #llm #tooling

1 min read

Nov 1 '24

Isso não acaba aqui!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners #braziliandevs

2 min read

Nov 1 '24

My First Hacktoberfest: A Journey into Open Source

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Oct 30 '24

Code Smell 277 - UPPERCASE Acronyms

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

7 min read

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