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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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Soren Hill

Oct 23 '24

Streamline real-time apps with a high-performance, open-source WebSocket platform for Node.js

#webdev #node #opensource #typescript

8 min read

Carrie

Oct 23 '24

Addressing Container Errors in Containerized Apps

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Carrie

Oct 23 '24

Guide to Addressing “Network File Descriptor is Not Connected”

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Judy

Oct 23 '24

Align Merge Two CSV Files according to Namesake Fields #eg64

#beginners #programming #devops #opensource

1 min read

Sep 25 '24

Linux, I Choose You! 🐧

#discuss #linux #opensource

4 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

Sep 19 '24

The more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects

#opensource #survey #maintainers #tidelift

6 min read

Oct 23 '24

Crushed Hacktoberfest 2024! 🚀 Earned My Level 4 Badge and Here's What I Learned 🦥💻

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github

1 min read

51 Vaishnavi Raykar

Oct 22 '24

Priority Based TODO-List

#hacktoberfest #githubcopilot #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Oct 23 '24

Announcing Integration between Apache APISIX and open-appsec WAF

#opensource #devops #security

12 min read

Oct 23 '24

🔥Must Notes When Using Open Sources 🧩

#opensource #webdev #beginners #mysql

4 min read

Yilia for API7

Oct 23 '24

Apache APISIX Integrates with open-appsec WAF

#opensource #devops #security

12 min read

Shovit

Oct 21 '24

🌱Hacktoberfest 2024: My Journey as a Maintainer of Tree2Hope

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Syed Khaja Moinuddin

Oct 18 '24

How to Contribute to Open Source as a Blockchain Developer in 2025

#opensource #devchallenge #blockchain #ai

3 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Sep 19 '24

My first open source contribution

#opensource #python #openai #github

3 min read

Oct 23 '24

Hacktoberfest contribution to ZTM-Quest

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #javascript

4 min read

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