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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.

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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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Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Sep 18 '23

Creating your First Valid PR for Hacktoberfest 2023

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #github #opensource

3 min read

Sep 10 '23

Discover Bun - A Faster, Modern JavaScript Runtime

#javascript #codenewbie #opensource

3 min read

Plínio Balduino

Sep 20 '23

[pt-BR] Criando um sistema operacional (quase) do zero

#operatingsystem #opensource #ptbr #osdev

1 min read

Sep 19 '23

A tiny fix with big impact and high risk

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #microsaas

4 min read

Nevo David for Gitroom

Sep 17 '23

💰The ultimate guide for a paid UGC 💸 💸

#discuss #webdev #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Allen Helton for AWS Heroes

Sep 20 '23

Turn Any API Into An Event-Driven Engine

#api #eventdriven #opensource

7 min read

Vaunt

Sep 20 '23

Celebrate Your Open Source Impact with Vaunt during Hacktoberfest 2023

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #tooling #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Sep 20 '23

How do you find Hacktoberfest issues?

#discuss #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #github

1 min read

Sep 18 '23

Can Godot screw us like Unity did?

#godot #unity3d #gamedev #opensource

6 min read

Heloisa Moraes for Codacy

Sep 20 '23

Applications Open: A Fellowship Program for Open Source Developers

#opensource #community #github #programming

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 19 '23

The Role of Documentation in Open Source Success

#opensource #documentation #technicalwriting

3 min read

RoderickB

Sep 20 '23

PSRule.Rules.AzureDevOps 0.0.7 released

#devops #cicd #azure #opensource

1 min read

Sep 20 '23

.NET Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks📒 - Multiple programming languages 💻

#news #dotnet #programming #opensource

3 min read

Ron Northcutt for Appsmith

Sep 19 '23

The Evolution of Git: A Dive Into Tech History

#discuss #git #linux #opensource

7 min read

Niklas for Rig.dev

Sep 18 '23

The 5 Biggest Risks and Rewards of Adopting Kubernetes

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #development

9 min read

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