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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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May 8 '24

Open Source Creates Opportunities For All

#opensource #tutorial #beginners

5 min read

Allison

Apr 4 '24

gemcompat: an open source db of undocumented gem incompatibilities with rails

#showdev #opensource #rails

1 min read

DeadPunnk

May 8 '24

Linux Essentials / Gerenciador de Pacotes

#linux #opensource #learning #certification

1 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 3 '24

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 67)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

May 8 '24

Plus UI -Tailwind CSS UI Library with a Design System

#opensource #uilibrary #componentlibrary #multiframework

4 min read

Shinigami

May 8 '24

Giving away a repository with 85k npm downloads a week ✨

#vue #plugin #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Tung Leo

Apr 28 '24

GitHub: Create your own repository landscape ⭐️

#github #opensource #githubactions #tooling

4 min read

Ankur Tyagi for AgentCloud

May 6 '24

How to Build a RAG Chatbot with Agent Cloud and MongoDB

#webdev #opensource #tutorial #productivity

9 min read

sabarixr

May 7 '24

Navigating the Cosmic Git: A Majestic Journey through Git Exercises

#git #beginners #tutorial #opensource

11 min read

DeadPunnk

May 7 '24

Linux Essentials / Vim

#linux #opensource #learning #certification

1 min read

Devtron for Devtron

May 7 '24

Manage Kubernetes like a Pro with Kubernetes Dashboard by Devtron

#kubernetes #devtron #devops #opensource

5 min read

Vaunt

May 7 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 Preparation Guide

#opensource #devrel #community #developer

3 min read

jlerocher

May 7 '24

Optimize Your Containerized App with SlimToolkit

#docker #opensource #cicd #webdev

2 min read

Lee Reilly for GitHub

May 2 '24

Showcase your open source project at top developer conferences in Berlin this summer 🇩🇪

#opensource #github #berlin #germany

2 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

May 6 '24

FLaNK-AIM Weekly 06 May 2024

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

6 min read

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