Skip to content

Forem

Open Source

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

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

Cover image for Open source diary #1

Dominik Ilnicki

Jun 24 '20

Open source diary #1

#opensource #react #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Cover image for How to deploy applications using Helm in Kubernetes?

Jun 28 '20

How to deploy applications using Helm in Kubernetes?

#kubernetes #opensource #beginners #devops

1 min read

Cover image for How we developed a chatbot to fight against COVID-19?

theapache64 for XenoX

Jun 26 '20

How we developed a chatbot to fight against COVID-19?

#showdev #opensource #kotlin

3 min read

Cover image for How Jordan Harband maintains hundreds of npm packages

Amy Hays for Tidelift

Jun 25 '20

How Jordan Harband maintains hundreds of npm packages

#javascript #productivity #opensource #interview

4 min read

Cover image for On demand debug logging with memoize_until

Ritikesh

Jun 26 '20

On demand debug logging with memoize_until

#beginners #opensource #webdev #rails

5 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Jun 26 '20

Angular 10 officially released and deprecates support for Internet Explorer 9 and 10; Read more about the changes

#angular #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Contributing to Gatsby - Issue #20699

Kirill Vasiltsov

Jun 26 '20

Contributing to Gatsby - Issue #20699

#opensource #gatsby #javascript #tutorial

4 min read

Jacqueline Binya

Jun 23 '20

Be the change

#life #opensource

5 min read

Cover image for Is your Linux distro fully compatible with your PC?

Jun 21 '20

Is your Linux distro fully compatible with your PC?

#discuss #linux #ubuntu #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for How CI/CD works ?

Gitlab Meetup Community

Jun 25 '20

How CI/CD works ?

#git #devops #gitlab #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Sudden Influx of Issues in my GitHub Repo? 🤖

Jun 24 '20

Sudden Influx of Issues in my GitHub Repo? 🤖

#github #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for A month-long challenge for building Linux sysadmin skills

Zalán

Jun 24 '20

A month-long challenge for building Linux sysadmin skills

#challenge #linux #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for How to get a Million of Machine Learning Predictions at the Tip of Your Fingers

Vesi Staneva for SashiDo.io

Jun 25 '20

How to get a Million of Machine Learning Predictions at the Tip of Your Fingers

#machinelearning #javascript #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Jun 23 '20

If I'm right Github's UI changed just now

#discuss #github #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for Best Raspberry Pi IDEs

Moe Long

Jun 24 '20

Best Raspberry Pi IDEs

#linux #opensource

7 min read

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.