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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 14 '24

Telling Your Open Source Story

#opensource

5 min read

Mudunuri bhaskara karthikeya varma

Aug 15 '24

Introducing the Swirl Component in Eldora UI

#opensource #nextjs #typescript #weeklyui

1 min read

Shinetech Software

Aug 15 '24

Exploring the Differences and Merits of Open Source vs. Closed Source Software

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #beginners #ai

3 min read

Lulu

Aug 15 '24

SafeLine: Pioneering the Next Generation of WAF with AI-Powered Semantic Analysis

#cybersecurity #webdev #kubernetes #opensource

3 min read

Aug 14 '24

Milvus Adventures August 14, 2024

#rag #opensource #buildinpublic #vectordatabase

3 min read

Lulu

Aug 15 '24

SafeLine: The Open-Source WAF That’s Gaining Traction on GitHub

#opensource #cybersecurity #webdev #waf

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 13 '24

Introducing the OSCR: Celebrating Open Source Stars

#opensource

6 min read

Hamdi (KHELIL) LION

Aug 14 '24

How to Test the Latest Kubernetes Changes in Version 1.31 "Elli"

#kubernetes #cloud #opensource #containers

4 min read

Breno Lira

Aug 14 '24

Creating Standalone Widgets with Svelte: My Journey and Solutions

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

ArtisticMK

Aug 14 '24

Intro to Animate4vue: Your New Vue.js Animation Companion

#vue #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

KienHT

Aug 14 '24

Enhance Visual Testing CI Pipelines with Cypress Image Diff GitHub App

#cypress #testing #ci #opensource

3 min read

Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Aug 12 '24

7 Open Source Projects You Should Know - Python Edition ✔️

#opensource #python #github #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Jul 15 '24

BIG phyal Update

#webdev #python #programming #opensource

1 min read

Paul

Aug 22 '24

What are you guys building?

#discuss #opensource #webdev #saas

1 min read

Leo

Aug 14 '24

Podcast Production with streamtasks

#showdev #opensource #podcast #productivity

3 min read

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