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 I Fixed Trello

Leonardo Montini for This is Learning

Oct 31 '23

I Fixed Trello

#productivity #webdev #chrome #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for # The Imperative of Open-Source Alignment in Today’s Digital Era

Nov 1 '23

# The Imperative of Open-Source Alignment in Today’s Digital Era

#opensource #digitaltransformation #community #innovation

2 min read

Cover image for Introducing Open Source by Pieces

Nov 1 '23

Introducing Open Source by Pieces

#opensource #beginners #programming #ai

16 min read

Nov 1 '23

Performance Optimization: Techniques for Improving JavaScript Application Performance

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Nov 1 '23

Use of Static Analysis tooling

#beginners #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Cover image for Thank you my unVanilla Fresh HackToberFest23

overFlow

Nov 1 '23

Thank you my unVanilla Fresh HackToberFest23

#webdev #beginners #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

2 min read

Hannah Aubry for Fastly

Nov 1 '23

Surprise! Here's a gift from Kubernetes and Fastly

#kubernetes #fastforward #community #opensource

5 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

Nov 1 '23

Developer relations - Part 2

#opensource #growth #community #devrel

2 min read

Cover image for Building Production Grade Microservices with Go and gRPC - A Step-by-Step Developer Guide with Example

Nik L.

Oct 28 '23

Building Production Grade Microservices with Go and gRPC - A Step-by-Step Developer Guide with Example

#go #opensource #programming #javascript

22 min read

Cover image for How to Get Your Pull Request Reviewed

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Nov 1 '23

How to Get Your Pull Request Reviewed

#opensource #github #codenewbie

4 min read

Nov 1 '23

Adding code formatting, linting, pre-commit hooks and beyond...

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

7 min read

Katie Liu

Nov 1 '23

Hacktoberfest Recap!

#opensource #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #hack23contributor

4 min read

Cover image for Hacktoberfest 2023: My comeback to Open Source!

Oct 31 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: My comeback to Open Source!

#hack23maintainer #opensource #hacktoberfest23 #go

5 min read

Sunny Gandhwani

Nov 1 '23

My First Hacktoberfest Journey

#hack23contributor #opensource #hacktoberfest #developers

2 min read

Cover image for A New Community about Developer tools and DevOps

Nov 1 '23

A New Community about Developer tools and DevOps

#devops #community #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Nov 1 '23

A deep look into YTsaurus. Availability, reliability, open source

#cpp #programming #opensource

8 min read

mismathh

Nov 1 '23

Recap of my First Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Bryce Seefieldt

Nov 1 '23

Hacktober the 3rd

#javascript #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

2 min read

mismathh

Nov 1 '23

4th Pull Request in Hacktoberfest23

#beginners #opensource #react #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Nov 1 '23

Code Reading

#opensource #beginners #programming #learning

6 min read

Cover image for The PHP open-source ebook

Roberto B.

Oct 27 '23

The PHP open-source ebook

#php #books #opensource #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 31 '23

Overriding in magento 2 using plugins

#webdev #magento2 #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for Post-Hacktoberfest Recap

Namatuzio

Oct 31 '23

Post-Hacktoberfest Recap

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev #python

3 min read

Katie Liu

Oct 31 '23

Hacktoberfest Week 4 PR

#opensource #hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest #hack23contributor

4 min read

mismathh

Oct 31 '23

3rd Pull Request in Hacktoberfest23

#opensource #beginners #markdown #hacktoberfest

2 min read

loading...