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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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Hannah Aubry for Fastly

Sep 18 '23

Community Spotlight: Keeping open source free with Dirk Müller, openSUSE

#fastforward #opensource #community #writing

8 min read

Sep 18 '23

Novidades do Ubuntu 23.10

#news #ubuntu #linux #opensource

2 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 14 '23

Astro Framework - Resources & Free Starters

#astro #webdev #opensource #frontend

4 min read

Jing for AREX Test

Sep 18 '23

A Comprehensive Guide of API Testing with AREX

#api #testing #opensource #beginners

8 min read

Francesco Sardone

Sep 18 '23

Creating A New GitHub Repository

#tutorial #github #opensource #beginners

5 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Sep 18 '23

You’re in Good Company with OSS: CrabNebula and Impierce Technologies

#opensource #rust #tauri

3 min read

Sep 15 '23

I made ERD and documents genertor of Prisma ORM

#prisma #typescript #opensource #database

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 5 '23

How to Participate in Hacktoberfest

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners

5 min read

Sep 17 '23

Packaging Go for Arch Linux Tutorial

#linux #go #opensource

7 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Sep 15 '23

Process of working in parallel branches in GitHub

#beginners #opensource #cli

2 min read

Mehmet Kırkoca

Sep 17 '23

Open Source Social Media Management

#socialmediamanagement #onlinepresence #opensource #microservices

3 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Sep 6 '23

Moneyball for engineers

#opensource #100daysofoss

4 min read

Niklas for Rig.dev

Sep 12 '23

Our Team's Favourite Open Source Projects Right Now

#discuss #webdev #opensource #startup

6 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Sep 15 '23

My first code contribution

#opensource #beginners #cli

2 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Sep 14 '23

GitHub Markdown Issue Templates

#github #opensource #codenewbie #productivity

4 min read

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