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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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Sep 29 '24

My Github Repo has now 99 stars, will you add one? 🎶

#git #github #opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Rajni Rethesh for Middleware

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Electron Repo—Unpredictable Metrics, Efficient Deployments

#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

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Abhijeet Gavali

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🌟 Hacktoberfest 2024 Has Begun! 🌟

#hacktoberfest #opensource #community #freecodecamp

1 min read

Lulu

Sep 10 '24

Setting Up SafeLine: Best Practices for Secure Web Traffic

#tutorial #devops #opensource #cybersecurity

3 min read

aldin for developuls

Sep 27 '24

Build a food delivery app by only using open source tools

#productivity #saas #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Antonio

Sep 30 '24

Huge milestone for our OSS analytics platform!

#discuss #webdev #opensource #analytics

2 min read

Sep 30 '24

Hacktoberfest: How You Can Contribute to Open Source and Make a Difference in 2024

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

5 min read

Oct 1 '24

How Project Ideas Can Come From Anywhere - My Open Source Daily Puzzle Game

#opensource #webdev #react #typescript

2 min read

Kalpesh Bhalekar

Sep 30 '24

Best Hacktoberfest Projects to Contribute to in 2024!🚀

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #coding

4 min read

Guillermo Ruiz for AWS Español

Sep 30 '24

Boletín AWS Open Source, September Edition

#aws #opensource #developers

9 min read

Sep 30 '24

Object.preventExtensions in JavaScript.

#javascript #typescript #opensource #preventextensions

3 min read

Sep 30 '24

Sparrow: API Sidekick You Needed

#showdev #api #opensource #github

2 min read

Karina Babcock for Causely

Sep 30 '24

The use of eBPF – in Netflix, GPU infrastructure, Windows programs and more

#networking #opensource #observability #ebpf

5 min read

Antonio

Sep 27 '24

500 views on the new Landing page in 7 hours!

#webdev #javascript #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Jen Wike Huger for OpenProject

Sep 30 '24

Fullstack Developer, Solutions Engineer Wanted at Remote Tech Company

#career #hiring #rails #opensource

2 min read

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