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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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Syed Mohsin Raza

Jun 13 '23

Free Open-Source Portfolio Template for Developers⚡🚀

#webdev #opensource #career #javascript

1 min read

Alvin James Bellero

Jul 1 '23

📦 Stay Organized and Efficient with Auto-Label-Pulls Github Action

#autolabelpulls #opensource #workflows #githubactions

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jun 21 '23

Open Source 101: A Beginner's Guide to Getting Started

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie #learning

10 min read

Ran Cohen

Jun 28 '23

Configu: Unleashing the Power of Configuration-as-Code

#devops #programming #opensource #configuration

6 min read

Cassidy Williams

Jun 21 '23

Open standards, trust, and Google

#opensource #openstandards

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jun 26 '23

Building Your DevRel Resume with Open Source

#codenewbie #caree #opensource #devrel

6 min read

Alvin James Bellero

Jun 30 '23

🤖 ChatGPT meets Firestore: Create Intelligent Conversations in Your App

#chatgpt #firebase #opensource #chatbot

3 min read

Amy Hays for Tidelift

May 31 '23

Upstream is June 7: Hear from maintainers of log4j and other top projects

#opensource #maintainers #java #python

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 29 '23

Deploying a serverless web analytics solution for your websites

#aws #opensource

11 min read

Jun 30 '23

Creating a Mixcloud Desktop App in Record Time with Electron.js

#node #electronjs #opensource #github

3 min read

Jun 29 '23

My Second Open Source Contribution: The AnalogJS Journey

#analogjs #angular #opensource #typescript

10 min read

Jun 29 '23

Googling for free 🎉: open source solution with API

#opensource #programming #github

7 min read

Aral Roca

Jun 5 '23

👋 Say Goodbye to Spread Operator: Use Default Composer

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Gun

Jun 29 '23

How to Localize Your Vue Application with Tolgee?

#tutorial #opensource #beginners #translation

14 min read

Jun 29 '23

Analyzing and Editing Ruby Source Code in Bullet Train

#ruby #rails #webdev #opensource

7 min read

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