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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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adrian

Oct 27 '23

Transfer SQL-> analytics 30x faster with ConnectorX + arrow + dlt

#dataengineering #python #arrow #opensource

1 min read

Nik L.

Oct 27 '23

Serverless Architectures for Notifications Design Using AWS - A Complete Guide for Developer

#aws #webdev #opensource #programming

8 min read

Katie Liu

Oct 26 '23

Hacktoberfest Week 3 PR

#opensource #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #hack23contributor

3 min read

Christine Belzie for OpenSauced

Oct 19 '23

How to Collaborate on Pull Requests for Beginners

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #100daysofoss

5 min read

Geoffrey Logovi

Oct 11 '24

How I learned about accessibility through open source contribution

#opensource #a11y #tublian #ai

2 min read

Jing for AREX Test

Oct 27 '23

A Real Automated Regression Testing Platform with Recording and Replay Testing (Open-Source)

#java #opensource #testing

7 min read

Celeste van der Watt for Platform.sh

Oct 27 '23

New Blackfire.io feature: On-demand distributed profile processing 😎

#opensource #devops #productivity #tooling

2 min read

Hebert Montarroyos

Oct 26 '23

Febo UI no Hacktoberfest 2023

#hack23maintainer #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

3 min read

Oct 26 '23

Scary Code Base

#opensource #management #techdebt

4 min read

Digvijay Shelar

Oct 26 '23

My Hacktoberfest 2023 Experience with Trigger.dev

#hacktoberfest23 #triggerdotdev #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Hebert Montarroyos

Oct 26 '23

Trilhando o meu primeiro Hacktoberfest 2023

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

1 min read

Ronald R

Oct 26 '23

It's OVER 9000!!!

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Abdul Rehman Nadeem

Oct 26 '23

Demystifying User Management and Permissions in pgAdmin 4

#programming #python #opensource #career

2 min read

Oct 24 '23

Base64 problem solved

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

vicmdv

Oct 26 '23

🦀⚡ Building extremely fast APIs with Rust & snowboard: Step-by-Step

#webdev #rust #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

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