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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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Kusuma

Aug 15 '23

Open-source post-quantum blockchain layer 1

#blockchain #opensource #developers

4 min read

Ferdinand Mütsch

Aug 15 '23

Wakapi - Open-Source Time Tracking for Devs

#showdev #opensource #selfhosted #go

1 min read

Alessandro Pischedda

Aug 14 '23

Build a personal project is a good thing

#showdev #opensource #learning #sideprojects

2 min read

toolkituse

Jul 12 '23

The toolkit-use npm package has added commonly used DOM methods.

#npm #rollup #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Aug 14 '23

🌟 Unlocking Opportunities: Earning Money as an Open Source Contributor and Empowering Businesses 🌟

#opensource #developers #maintain #support

1 min read

Oluwadamisi Samuel Praise

Aug 14 '23

Mastering Conditional If Statements in Python With a Real World Example (Guessing Game)

#python #datascience #productivity #opensource

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 10 '23

Open Source ABCs: Fork

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Abhishek Pathak

Aug 13 '23

Caches

#scor32k #internet #linux #opensource

4 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Jul 10 '23

FLaNK Stack Weekly for 10 July 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

2 min read

Aug 13 '23

Create and Elevate Your GitHub Profile README

#github #opensource #beginners #tutorial

5 min read

Aug 10 '23

Trials and Tribulations

#opensource #community

4 min read

Ahmed Shah

Aug 12 '23

Efficient Event Communication RabbitMQ: Implementing Event Bus and Outbox Patterns with CAP in .NET Core Microservices

#webdev #programming #dotnet #opensource

6 min read

Pachi 🥑 for GitHub

Aug 10 '23

Construindo sua marca pessoal no mundo Open Source

#braziliandevs #githubbrasil #opensource #career

2 min read

Aug 12 '23

Privacy-friendly usage analytics and monitoring for Secutils.dev

#buildinpublic #opensource #security #microsaas

4 min read

Danny

Aug 11 '23

Getting started with React Native Storybook 6

#reactnative #storybook #opensource

3 min read

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