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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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Shrijal Acharya

Nov 29 '23

✨Be a 10X Linux User with these tools 😎💫

#opensource #programming #productivity #webdev

4 min read

Srinivas Kandukuri

Nov 28 '23

Top 5 Featured DEV Tag(#opensource) Posts from the Past Week

#opensource #c4r4x35

1 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Dec 5 '23

SPL understanding and Open Source

#programming #tutorial #opensource #database

5 min read

Chrea Chanchhunneng

Nov 17 '23

🚀 Exciting Open Source Project: Programming Starters Collection 🌐

#beginners #opensource #programming #tutorial

2 min read

Namatuzio

Nov 28 '23

Digging Deeper with TypeScript: ESlint

#typescript #opensource #discord #github

3 min read

DASWU

Nov 17 '23

Is POSIX Really Unsuitable for Object Stores? A Data-Backed Answer

#opensource

10 min read

Mustafif

Nov 28 '23

TexCreate v3.3 Initial Plans

#news #rust #latex #opensource

1 min read

Nov 28 '23

My Path to Python

#python #chatgpt #opensource #api

2 min read

Namatuzio

Nov 27 '23

Type-strict coding with TypeScripts "strict" mode

#typescript #opensource #webdev #github

3 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Nov 27 '23

Delving Deeper in a Project #2, modifying a CI workflow

#beginners #opensource #programming #cpp

7 min read

Kazane Shimizu for Collections

Nov 27 '23

Can I create another WordPress that satisfies humanity?

#react #wordpress #opensource #jamstack

6 min read

Nov 27 '23

Breaking Language Barriers: Contributing to FileBrowser's Arabic Localization

#vue #go #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Nov 24 '23

Adding Dockerfiles to Open-Source Projects

#opensource #docker #devops #webdev

7 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 for SWIRL

Nov 26 '23

Securely deploying Swirl in Azure.

#programming #python #opensource #devops

3 min read

Anton

Nov 27 '23

Integrate any command into your file-processing pipeline

#go #tooling #opensource

3 min read

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