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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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Pachi 🥑 for Webcrumbs

Apr 25 '24

What is a Plugin Ecosystem and Why Does It Matter?

#opensource #webdev #javascript #frontend

3 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

Apr 25 '24

So you bought an all-in-one software...

#beginners #career #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Mar 24 '24

Understanding license compliance in open source projects

#opensource

2 min read

Jake Page for Distr

Apr 24 '24

Glasskube Beta is live!

#beginners #programming #devops #opensource

4 min read

Clelia (Astra) Bertelli

Apr 26 '24

AI enthusiasm #8 - AI can modify human DNA🔬

#news #ai #llm #opensource

4 min read

Thiago Massari Guedes

Apr 26 '24

How to deserialise DateTime from toml configuration

#rust #toml #programming #opensource

2 min read

Gerard Clos for Latitude

Apr 25 '24

Latitude: The missing analytics layer between your database and your users 🤝🏽

#showdev #opensource

2 min read

Ione Souza Junior

Apr 26 '24

You don't need to be a senior to contribute to open-source projects

#git #opensource

9 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 18 '24

Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol

#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

5 min read

Apr 25 '24

GitHub Sponsors: azu the Japanese TypeScript and JavaScript developer

#github #opensource #javascript #typescript

2 min read

alisdairbr for Koyeb

Apr 25 '24

How to Deploy Directus as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) on Koyeb

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #api

8 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Apr 25 '24

Measuring Successful Communities in Open Source

#opensource #community

3 min read

Apr 23 '24

Open Source Manifesto

#opensource #programming #tutorial

8 min read

Apr 24 '24

GitHub Sponsor Rust developer David Tolnay

#github #opensource #rust

3 min read

Henry John Kupty

Mar 22 '24

Specific vs Generic: A case for less generic software

#java #softwareengineering #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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