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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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Mohammed Abdulatef

Jan 23 '25

🖼️ Building a Dynamic OG Image Generator with Cloudflare Workers: Edge-Powered Social Cards Made Easy

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #javascript

2 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

Jan 23 '25

Optimize API Testing with Hoppscotch CLI and Web based Collection Runners

#api #webdev #testing #opensource

5 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Jan 23 '25

OSD700: Results of Sprint #1

#opensource

2 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Jan 23 '25

OSD700: How LLMs and Messengers Handling Attachments UI

#opensource

6 min read

Hirotaka Miyagi for ROUTE06, Inc.

Jan 22 '25

Generate Beautiful and Interactive ER-Diagrams with Liam ERD

#showdev #database #opensource #liamerd

6 min read

Jan 22 '25

Kapper, a Fresh Look at ORMs for Kotlin and the JVM

#kotlin #database #opensource #design

13 min read

Naman Vashistha

Jan 22 '25

Create Stunning Images from Text with a Telegram Bot 🚀

#python #telegram #pillow #opensource

2 min read

Puneet-Kumar2010

Jan 22 '25

I build tug of war: demo project 😂

#gamedev #javascript #opensource #devjournal

2 min read

Jan 22 '25

Introducing Fincept Terminal 1.0: A New Era of Financial Analysis 🚀

#python #ai #opensource #github

2 min read

divyesh vekariya

Jan 22 '25

Explore Free APIs for Your Projects

#opensource #api #mobile #webdev

1 min read

Long Bui

Dec 19 '24

Your Open Source Data Platform Starter Kit

#opensource #devops #architecture #tooling

1 min read

Adrian Machado for Zuplo

Dec 19 '24

Day 5 - Announcing v2 of react-api-key-manager

#opensource #security

1 min read

Adrian Machado for Zuplo

Dec 19 '24

Announcing RateMyOpenAPI!

#opensource

2 min read

Jan 22 '25

Log Viewer for Next.js Server Side: Node.js

#nextjs #node #opensource #api

5 min read

Jemmy Dalsaniya

Jan 22 '25

Git and Github

#git #github #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

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