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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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SK MIRAJUL ISLAM

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Maintainer Experience for Hacktoberfest 2024: Building E-Nyanjyoti Platform

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

AnhChienVu

Sep 20 '24

Building a Command-Line Tool to Leverage Large Language Models for generating README

#ai #opensource #beginners #github

3 min read

Hex Batch

Oct 20 '24

Basic code plans and licenses

#license #opensource #architecture #devjournal

2 min read

Tung Leo

Oct 19 '24

Introducing TheDevOpsHub: Your Central Hub for DevOps Learning! 🚀

#devops #learning #opensource #documentation

3 min read

Sleeyax

Oct 20 '24

How to get rid of fake followers on X (Twitter)

#twitter #opensource #browser #extensions

6 min read

Bobby

Oct 6 '24

9 Open Source Projects to Contribute to - Hacktoberfest 2024

#hacktoberfest #beginners #devops #opensource

3 min read

Oct 17 '24

🎉Hacktoberfest: A Three-year Journey of Open Source Awesomeness 🚀

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

erickay

Oct 17 '24

My First Participation in Hacktoberfest: An Enriching Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Chidozie Managwu

Oct 19 '24

Implementing Edge Detection with Python and OpenCV: A Step-by-Step Guide

#ai #python #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

Kawal Jain

Oct 20 '24

Building My Own Markdown Parser: A Developer's Journey 🚀

#react #markdown #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Dário Prazeres

Sep 15 '24

O que é Open Source?

#opensource #linux #microsoft #development

5 min read

Sep 15 '24

happy to be here

#beginners #devops #opensource #aws

1 min read

Istaprasad Patra

Oct 19 '24

Easy Authentication Using Hanko.io

#webdev #opensource #node #productivity

4 min read

Qian Li for DBOS, Inc.

Oct 17 '24

Reliable Multi-Agent Orchestration with Durable Swarm 💪🐝

#tutorial #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

IAM VAAR

Sep 19 '24

I built an OpenSource Slack Employee Recognition Bot using NextJS

#opensource #webdev #nextjs #react

1 min read

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