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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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Arindam Majumder

Sep 30 '24

7 Open-Source Events You Can Participate in this Hacktoberfest — Win Cool Swags 🎁

#opensource #webdev #beginners #hacktoberfest

7 min read

Er Hardik Chauhan

Sep 12 '24

A Day in the Life of a Full stack Engineer: Real Stories and Challenges

#webdev #fullstack #opensource #programming

4 min read

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Oct 12 '24

Developing Looom: A Background Sound Mixer for Relaxation and Concentration

#webdev #javascript #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Oct 11 '24

Deploying High Availability SafeLine WAF on K3s(Part 4)

#kubernetes #opensource #websecurity #cybersecurity

4 min read

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DanielBetterDevelopers

Oct 11 '24

Add new server to Coolify instance

#selfhosting #coolify #linux #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Oct 11 '24

Deploying High Availability SafeLine WAF on K3s(Part 2)

#kubernetes #cybersecurity #opensource #waf

9 min read

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Rahul Kumar Barnwal

Oct 8 '24

🚀 My 2024 Hacktoberfest Journey: A Contributor's Reflection 🌍💻

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Carrie

Oct 11 '24

Deploying High Availability SafeLine WAF on K3s(Part 3)

#kubernetes #cybersecurity #waf #opensource

4 min read

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Mohammed Muqtadir Ahad

Sep 11 '24

Stirling-PDF: Your All-in-One PDF Solution

#opensource #pdf #webdev #docker

2 min read

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Oct 9 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Oct 11 '24

Release 0.43.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - a maintenance release AND a bug!

#githubaction #opensource #release

2 min read

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Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Oct 11 '24

How to deploy Molmo 7B-D-0924 in the Cloud?

#opensource #ai #aimodels

8 min read

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Oct 7 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Carrie

Oct 11 '24

Deploying High Availability SafeLine WAF on K3s(Part 1)

#cybersecurity #opensource #k3s

5 min read

Oct 10 '24

My Hacktoberfest Contribution To DiceDB

#database #redis #opensource #hacktoberfest

3 min read

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