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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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Feb 19 '25

Built It Because I Was Tired of Rebuilding It: The Story Behind ThemeShift

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Feb 19 '25

4 Year Badge… but I Don’t Remember Joining? 🤔

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Feb 13 '25

What are Internal Developer Platforms?

#devops #opensource #cloud #tooling

4 min read

NocoBase

Feb 19 '25

Best ERP Solutions for Small Businesses: 4 Tools to Improve Efficiency

#erp #opensource #management #lowcode

5 min read

Mageshwaran Sekar

Feb 19 '25

ArgoCD vs Flux: Technical Comparison

#gitops #cloudnative #opensource

5 min read

Jan 15 '25

What technologies do you recommend for developing an affiliate network marketing platform?

#softwaredevelopment #opensource #architecture

1 min read

Feb 18 '25

Boost Your Productivity with Nodindow

#productivity #opensource #programming #csharp

1 min read

TheoForger

Jan 16 '25

Back For More!

#opensource

3 min read

Jan 16 '25

LogLayer: A Modern Logging Library for TypeScript / JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Feb 18 '25

Automating Data Classification with Stof

#rust #data #ai #opensource

2 min read

viraj08

Jan 15 '25

join my project semester simulator

#programming #python #career #opensource

1 min read

Suraj

Feb 18 '25

Learn Markdown in less than 5 minutes.

#markdown #tutorial #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Arindam Majumder for CopilotKit

Feb 6 '25

💡Build an AI-Powered, Open-Source Notion 🤖

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

13 min read

Sumonta Saha Mridul

Feb 18 '25

I Built This GitHub README to Showcase My Skills & Get an Internship at a Software Company!

#webdev #github #portfolio #opensource

1 min read

Feb 18 '25

Open-source is like all eyes looking at it, with Cam Saul, Metabase

#podcast #clojure #opensource #python

1 min read

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