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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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Tib

Oct 29 '24

My London Perl And Raku Workshop 2024

#techtalks #perl #opensource #conference

6 min read

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Roberto B.

Oct 26 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: Celebrating Open-Source and Community Collaboration! 🎉

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Carrie

Oct 30 '24

How to Test Effectiveness of a WAF (Web Application Firewall)

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Subhadaya Bhatta

Oct 26 '24

HACTOBERFEST WRITING CHALLENGE

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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Oct 28 '24

⚡ 🚀 Top 10 Trending GitHub Repositories, October 28, 2024 🔥

#webdev #github #opensource #beginners

3 min read

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Muhideen Mujeeb Adeoye

Oct 9 '24

How to add a feedback box to your Vue.js app (and get notified on Slack)

#formbricks #opensource #vue

3 min read

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Oliver Bennet for GraphPe

Oct 29 '24

10 Essential Linux Commands Every Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Should Know

#linux #cli #bash #opensource

3 min read

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Oct 28 '24

Self-Host Your Digital Empire: 4 Open-Source Essentials

#opensource #svelte #linux

5 min read

Ali

Oct 29 '24

How to Encrypt a USB drive Using Cryptsetup with LUKS on Linux

#linux #encryption #ubuntu #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Maddy for Neighbourhoodie

Oct 29 '24

What Goes Into a Major OSS Release? A CouchDB Story

#couchdb #opensource #hacktoberfest #apache

5 min read

Jeremy

Oct 29 '24

Sending Transactional Emails with Transmitly (C#)

#opensource #csharp

4 min read

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Oct 26 '24

Contributor Experience 2024: Reflections on Hacktoberfest

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Abdullah Bin Altaf

Oct 24 '24

My First Time Participating in Hacktoberfest: A Journey into Open Source

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Oct 29 '24

Self-Hosting Twenty CRM: A Complete Guide

#webdev #management #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Vivesh

Oct 29 '24

Introduction to Kubernetes: A Beginner's Guide

#kubernetes #opensource #basic #devops

3 min read

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