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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Oct 9 '23

Open Source ABCs: Workflow

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Timonwa Akintokun

Oct 10 '23

Making Your First Open-source Contribution: A Beginner's Guide

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #hacktoberfest23

4 min read

Max Shen

Oct 10 '23

Build a Neovim plugin in Lua 🌙

#neovim #vim #editor #opensource

3 min read

Oct 10 '23

Open Source Projects: A Journey Through Time and Triumphs

#opensource #linux #techhistory

3 min read

Abubaker Siddique

Oct 10 '23

OpenAI Said to Be Considering Developing Its Own AI Chips

#news #opensource #openai #ai

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Oct 6 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 62)

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest23 #100daysofoss

1 min read

Oct 9 '23

How to Contribute to Open Source: A Step-by-Step Guide

#opensource #beginners #hacktoberfest #bash

3 min read

Oct 10 '23

Transforming Figma Designs into a Flutter App: A Journey

#flutter #opensource #beginners #programming

2 min read

Nick Taylor for OpenSauced

Sep 21 '23

Supercharge your Repository with Code Owners

#github #opensource #productivity #security

3 min read

Oct 9 '23

How to write a YAML configuration file? | A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

#devops #yaml #opensource #cloud

2 min read

Shreya

Nov 2 '23

💪💪 Top 5 Open-Source Insomnia alternatives that you must try in 2024 🔥

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Elanat Framework

Oct 9 '23

Full description of the add-on at Elanat CMS

#dotnet #csharp #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Sep 5 '23

FLaNK Stack Weekly 5 September 2023

#apacheflink #opensource #apachekafka #apachenifi

4 min read

persadian

Oct 9 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest2023 #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Oct 9 '23

Exploring the Open Source with dyPixa!

#hacktoberfest23 #dypixa #opensource #aiml

1 min read

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