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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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Adem Kouki

Nov 25 '23

📜 RepoList - A tool to generate wordlists based on GitHub repositories

#security #cybersecurity #opensource #python

3 min read

Nov 25 '23

Adding Code Formatting to Whitebophir Project: A Journey of Contribution

#prettier #opensource #javascript #githubactions

2 min read

Nov 25 '23

Reinforcing my ReactJS Knowledge

#webdev #opensource #react

5 min read

Nov 24 '23

Milvus Adventures Nov 24, 2023

#opensource #go #milvus #tutorial

3 min read

Ayu Adiati

Nov 22 '23

How to Resolve Merge Conflicts Using the Merge Editor Feature on VS Code

#opensource #git #vscode #webdev

4 min read

Guillermo Ruiz for AWS Español

Nov 24 '23

Boletín AWS Open Source, November Edition

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Abdurrahman Rajab for OpenSauced

Nov 22 '23

How open source landed me a job in a YC company

#opensource #webdev #career #development

7 min read

Nov 24 '23

Logistics 4.0: Integrating Technology To The Outsourcing Success

#webdev #career #opensource #outsourcing

6 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Nov 24 '23

My first Software Release using GitHub Release

#beginners #opensource #cpp #programming

5 min read

Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Nov 20 '23

The "Modern email" devroom at FOSDEM is looking for proposals.

#email #programming #api #opensource

2 min read

Nov 24 '23

Diving into the Deep: My Inaugural PyTorch Contribution Adventure!

#python #opensource #career #learning

9 min read

Vishnu Das Puthukudi

Nov 24 '23

Simplifying Releases: A Journey with Text2page

#python #opensource #programming #beginners

2 min read

Michael

Nov 21 '23

The True Price of My Open Source Journey

#webdev #developer #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Nov 23 '23

Expanding on My ReactJS Knowledge

#webdev #react #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Matija Sosic for Wasp

Nov 15 '23

How we built a GPT Web App Generator for React & Node.js - from idea to 25,000 apps in 4 months

#webdev #react #opensource #startup

8 min read

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