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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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Jimmy Guerrero for Voxel51

Sep 12 '24

Sept 19: Visual AI in Healthcare Virtual Meetup

#devrel #opensource #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

Oct 16 '24

🚀 In-App Surveys in React Native with Formbricks: The Ultimate Guide ❤️‍🔥

#webdev #react #reactnative #opensource

4 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Oct 2 '24

Join the 2024 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge: Reflect on your Journey as a Contributor or Maintainer

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Kirill Ageychenko

Sep 12 '24

Harnessing Fusion Energy and Bending Space-Time: The Future of Gigantic Lasers and Gravitational Wave Communication

#beginners #productivity #opensource #learning

3 min read

Priyank Deep Singh

Oct 15 '24

Launching my project for Designer, Devs and Artist - ColorBrew

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

3 min read

Vivesh

Oct 16 '24

Docker and Kubernetes: The Backbone of Modern Application Development Part 1 (Docker)

#kubernetes #docker #containers #opensource

2 min read

V

Oct 12 '24

Make Your First Open-Source Impact with Responsively On HacktoberFest

#hacktoberfest #devchallenge #opensource

2 min read

Deeksha Shakyawal

Oct 11 '24

My First Hacktoberfest Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Muhammad Junaid Khalid

Oct 14 '24

Code, Collaboration, and Contributions: My First Ever Hacktoberfest Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Oct 16 '24

Hoppscotch: The Best Browser-Based API Testing Tool – A Postman Online Alternative

#webdev #javascript #api #opensource

3 min read

xuri

Oct 16 '24

Excelize 2.9.0 Released - Powerful open-source library for spreadsheet (Excel) document

#go #excel #excelize #opensource

4 min read

Judy

Oct 16 '24

Getting a member according to primary key value #eg59

#discuss #beginners #programming #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

Oct 8 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 - The Antiguide

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #programming

4 min read

Vignesh J

Oct 12 '24

My First Hacktoberfest as a Maintainer: The Highs and Lows

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Oct 16 '24

Did You Know? Prometheus Doesn’t Support Built-In Data Deletion!

#discuss #prometheus #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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