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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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Shalaka Deshan Silva

Dec 26 '23

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Dec 2 '23

Step 1- let me plan first

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Namatuzio

Dec 11 '23

Custom Themes & Dark Mode Progress

#webdev #javascript #opensource #python

3 min read

Dec 22 '23

Choose Wisely: RISC-V vs. ARM - Architectures of the Future

#risc #arm #architecture #opensource

4 min read

Nov 30 '23

🎁 Shortcut to Find Open Source Projects 100x faster

#opensource #beginners #productivity #github

4 min read

Dec 22 '23

The Case Against Windows: A Hilariously Serious Guide to Profound Alternatives

#linux #programming #devops #opensource

5 min read

Sriram Ramkrishna for oneAPI Community

Dec 22 '23

Looking forward to 2024!

#oneapi #community #opensource #sycl

3 min read

tanya rai

Dec 21 '23

Playground for Generative AI

#beginners #opensource #ai #devops

2 min read

Dec 21 '23

Build AI developer that makes pull requests for you

#python #ai #opensource #tutorial

13 min read

Dec 21 '23

AI-Powered Pull Requests: CodiumAI vs GitHub Copilot

#ai #github #git #opensource

10 min read

Exein

Dec 21 '23

Container Monitoring in Pulsar 0.7.0

#rust #opensource #security #github

4 min read

Artak Vardanyan

Dec 21 '23

Smallest Docker Image - 92B

#docker #podman #devops #opensource

2 min read

IA_AU_ECO

Dec 21 '23

The Impact of AI on Writing Code

#productivity #opensource #security

2 min read

Jing for AREX Test

Dec 21 '23

AREX or GoReplay: Choosing the Right Tool for Effective Traffic Replay

#showdev #devops #opensource

5 min read

Dec 18 '23

Green GitHub: To Have or Not to Have?

#discuss #github #opensource #career

2 min read

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