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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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Oct 13 '23

Pareto: Genesis

#webdev #productivity #startup #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Oct 12 '23

Open Source ABCs: Xenial Xerus

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Rose Media House

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WTransport - WebTransport library in Rust 🦀

#rust #webdev #opensource #github

1 min read

Hakeem Abbas for Coding Crafts

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Open Source vs Proprietary Software: Pro & Cons

#opensource #software #softwaredevelopment #coding

5 min read

Oct 13 '23

My second hacktoberfest PR

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

2 min read

Benjie for Graphile

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Step Aside Resolvers — Grafast 0.1 Released!

#news #grafast #graphql #opensource

5 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Timonwa Akintokun

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After Hacktoberfest 2023: What's Next?

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #beginners

5 min read

Nik L.

Oct 13 '23

The Advanced Notification Systems of LinkedIn, Quora, and Airbnb: What notification components are being used?

#devops #opensource #openai #linux

4 min read

Larissa de Oliveira

Oct 11 '23

Certificações do GitHub: Descubra essa novidade e já prepare seus estudos!

#news #opensource #braziliandevs #github

3 min read

Oct 13 '23

Join the MyLibrary Revolution: Unleash Your Creativity through Contribution

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #hacktoberfest #frontend

2 min read

Oct 12 '23

The Attack of (Generative) AI - DevHunt Digest #4

#opensource #devhunt #ai

7 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Oct 11 '23

OpenSauced is Now Live on Product Hunt: A New Era for Contributors and Maintainers! 🚀

#opensource

2 min read

Timonwa Akintokun

Oct 9 '23

Finding Your First Hacktoberfest Project: A Step-by-Step Guide

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #hacktoberfest23

11 min read

Oct 12 '23

Lab 5 - Refactoring the code

#opensource #productivity #javascript

1 min read

Sep 27 '23

What I've learnt in 1 month of programming

#beginners #programming #javascript #opensource

6 min read

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