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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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Marine for Taipy

Mar 12 '24

Python libraries you need to know in 2025

#python #opensource #programming #list

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Mar 19 '24

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#bestfriend #javascript #opensource #webdev

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100DaysOfCode-io

Mar 19 '24

100 Days of coding challenges for learning java

#java #programming #opensource #career

1 min read

Daniele Scasciafratte

Mar 21 '24

How to generate a Linux static build of a binary

#bash #linux #opensource

1 min read

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Mar 18 '24

Welcome Discord Users Awesomely!

#discord #unburn #opensource #greetify

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Pizofreude

Mar 19 '24

Debugging "Resource not accessible by integration" Error in GitHub Actions

#github #githubactions #beginners #opensource

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Oluwatosin Obatoyinbo

Mar 18 '24

Don't Run Blind, Check Under The Hood

#observability #opensource #elasticsearch #kubernetes

3 min read

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Nik L. for SuprSend

Mar 18 '24

How Redis Addressed Our Dynamic Task Scheduling and Concurrent Execution Issues w Celery & Postgres

#watercooler #opensource

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Mar 19 '24

Welcome to TikTok for Developers!

#tiktok #developers #opensource #technology

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Jordan-Tyler Burchett

Mar 18 '24

I trashed a software website just to reboot it 5 years later!

#news #webdev #opensource #learning

3 min read

Mar 21 '24

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#programming #swift #opensource #app

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[Typia] executable demo site of 20,000x faster validator (serializer)

#typescript #javascript #opensource #react

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FOSS Backstage Design Meets XR: Recap

#opensource #design #xr #conference

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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 18 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #193

#opensource #aws

14 min read

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Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

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7 Essential Hoppscotch Features to Skyrocket API Development Productivity 🚀

#api #opensource #postmanalternative #productivity

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