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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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Noor Afsha

Oct 21 '24

From Novice to Badge Holder: My Journey Through Hacktoberfest 2024

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

David

Sep 20 '24

This Title Is Already Tokenized

#ai #llm #opensource #python

14 min read

Abdulsalaam Noibi

Oct 23 '24

Mastering Trace Analysis with Span Links using OpenTelemetry and Signoz (A Practical Guide, Part 1)

#opensource #python #devops #tutorial

14 min read

Oct 13 '24

An endless procedurally generated on-the-go picture

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Oct 21 '24

Seven Years of HacktoberFest, and Counting!

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Oct 24 '24

Docker Hub Explained: Features, Advantages, and How to Use It

#docker #opensource #devops #cloud

3 min read

Oct 18 '24

HacktoberFest 2024 Progress

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Gagan Deep

Oct 20 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 Completed

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

AnhChienVu

Sep 20 '24

Creating Pull Requests to External Repositories

#programming #opensource #javascript #beginners

3 min read

Ayra Jett for Bytebase

Oct 15 '24

🧑‍💻🔧 Build a homelab with these apps and develop ANYTHING! 🤩

#tooling #productivity #opensource #github

3 min read

Yassine Sallami

Oct 23 '24

How to create an image authentication system with python streamlit and canva!

#beginners #python #security #opensource

2 min read

Oct 23 '24

Open Source project Ideation

#discuss #opensource

2 min read

Oct 24 '24

A nice Ruby-based command-line time tracker

#opensource #ruby #cli #productivity

4 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Oct 23 '24

Medusa 2.0: The world's most flexible commerce platform

#webdev #javascript #opensource #ecommerce

1 min read

Oct 21 '24

9 Tools Everyone Should Try🧙‍♂️🫵

#javascript #webdev #opensource #productivity

6 min read

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