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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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Nilanjan Raychaudhuri

Aug 24 '23

AI Copilot for Open Source Contributors

#opensource #ai #emergingdevelopers #beginners

2 min read

Aug 24 '23

Q2 2023 update - Web resources tracker

#buildinpublic #opensource #microsaas #security

3 min read

Aug 23 '23

My First Open Source Contributions

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners

2 min read

Kellen for QuestDB

Aug 22 '23

Concurrent Data-structure Design Walk-Through

#programming #java #opensource #database

18 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 18 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 55)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Unni P

Aug 23 '23

Building a Kubernetes v1.28 Cluster using kubeadm

#kubernetes #cloudnative #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Vitali Haradkou

Aug 23 '23

@rslike: compare your structures in TypeScript/JavaScript like a pro

#programming #npm #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Márk Sági-Kazár

Jul 24 '23

How to become an Open Source Software contributor?

#opensource

16 min read

Dave Kellam for Plank

Aug 23 '23

Five For the Future at Plank

#wordpress #development #opensource

1 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 21 '23

Open Source ABCs: Issues

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Vaunt

Aug 23 '23

Vaunt Feature Overview

#opensource

5 min read

Ayu Adiati

Aug 14 '23

How to Communicate Better in Open Source

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #webdev

4 min read

Gabriel C. Troia

Aug 22 '23

9 Lessons I learned from failing at my first business

#business #opensource #web #javascript

6 min read

Aug 22 '23

Personal finances and indie-project budget

#buildinpublic #opensource #microsaas #finance

3 min read

Brandon Roberts for OpenSauced

Aug 16 '23

How to Mentor New Open Source Contributors

#opensource #github

3 min read

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