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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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Abhay

Sep 27 '23

Join Our Hacktoberfest Celebration and Contribute to Our Programming Blog!

#hack23maintainer #hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Sep 28 '23

The cost of false positives in software security, Part 1: Small applications

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #security

6 min read

Yann Tavernier for Gravitee

Sep 28 '23

Write your own policy with Gravitee.io API Management 4.0.0

#graviteeio #api #opensource #apim

15 min read

Celeste van der Watt

Sep 28 '23

What makes our new PaaS offering, Upsun, so unique on the sustainability front? 🤔

#webdev #devops #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Tymoteusz Stępień

Sep 28 '23

Reality Check: Cypress' Actions Speak Louder than Words

#cypress #opensource #testing #programming

2 min read

Sep 27 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: Where Open Source Enthusiasts of All Levels Unite

#opensource #hacktoberfest23 #programming

3 min read

Sep 27 '23

Open Source Software - A New Form of Communism?

#opensource #community

3 min read

DR

Sep 27 '23

Hacktoberfest Pledge 🎉

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource

3 min read

Sergey Bolshchikov

Sep 27 '23

😱 Sane front-end project architecture based on 12 years of experience

#javascript #architecture #react #opensource

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 27 '23

Open Source ABCs: Transparency

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Sep 28 '23

Hacktoberfest10 Pledge

#hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest10 #opensource

1 min read

Olasunkanmi Balogun for Formbricks

Sep 22 '23

🔥 How To Get Juicy User Insights With In-App Pre-Churn Survey In Next.js With Formbricks 💡💬

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #nextjs

6 min read

RoboCoach

Sep 27 '23

ROScribe release v0.0.3: Supporting ROS2

#ai #robotics #opensource #openai

3 min read

Sep 27 '23

GraphQL Visualizer vs. Low-Code API Builder - DevHunt Digest #2

#opensource #devhunt #graphql #api

6 min read

Ayu Adiati

Sep 26 '23

How Important is a Code of Conduct in an Open-Source Project?

#discuss #opensource #community #watercooler

1 min read

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