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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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Feb 11 '24

Yet Another Newsletter LOL: Madden 2025

#javascript #opensource #eslint

4 min read

Feb 12 '24

Java Chess with server and client

#showdev #beginners #java #opensource

1 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 6 '24

Development Tools and Platforms: Create your Dev.to + Pipedream Automation in under 20 minutes

#automation #opensource

4 min read

SyedAsadRazaDevops

Feb 12 '24

Deploy Teleport on a Linux ubuntu Server

#teleport #opensource

2 min read

Feb 11 '24

Feature release 1.36 of the Date::Holidays Perl distribution

#perl #release #cpan #opensource

1 min read

Feb 11 '24

Release 0.36.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action: maintenance/feature release - sort of

#release #opensource #githubaction

1 min read

Cristiano Pacheco for run_as_root GmbH

Feb 20 '24

Good-bye Docker, Hello Nix: Configuring a Magento 2 Development Environment with Rooter

#magento2 #tutorial #opensource #webdev

12 min read

Joe Curlee for Capsize LLC

Feb 11 '24

Introducing PyQt6 Mediator Mixin

#python #software #programming #opensource

1 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Feb 10 '24

Refactor and Reboot: Time to Clear Backlog in Open Source

#webdev #react #opensource #css

9 min read

Feb 6 '24

a solution to contributors creating multiple issues in open source - need feedback 🤞

#discuss #github #githubactions #opensource

3 min read

Grace Gong

Feb 11 '24

GitHub Field Day USA 2024: Microsoft Reactor New York City

#github #githubuniverse #githubuniverse2023 #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 5 '24

Development Tools and Platforms: A Closer Look at API Testing with Hoppscotch

#opensource #beginners #api #testing

4 min read

Bhaswanth Chiruthanuru

Feb 10 '24

Revolutionizing JavaScript Form Validation: Introducing FavJS

#javascript #formvalidation #opensource #collaboration

2 min read

Feb 10 '24

Exploring OAuth 2.0: Enabling Google Authentication in a Pure Browser-Based Web App (2)

#opensource #openai #typescript #webapp

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 8 '24

Getting User Feedback for Success: Tips and Tools

#opensource #saas #feedback #devex

4 min read

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