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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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Peter

Oct 30 '24

Using the Open Policy Agent with Backstage!

#opensource #opa #backstage #openpolicyagent

2 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Hotragn

Oct 26 '24

My First Dance with Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Aditya Deshlahre

Oct 30 '24

Redefining Financial Analysis with OpenBB: The Power of Open-Source Versus Proprietary Tools

#opensource #hacktoberfest #finance #tooling

4 min read

Manuel Artero Anguita 🟨

Oct 29 '24

When Volunteering Turns into a Demanding Job Offer?

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #career

1 min read

Cover image for Hacktoberfest 2024: A Comedy of PRs (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Merge Conflicts)

Oct 26 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: A Comedy of PRs (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Merge Conflicts)

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Carrie

Oct 30 '24

Beginner's Guide to Understanding CDN

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

2 min read

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Chris Grams for Tidelift

Sep 26 '24

Maintainers are spending 3 more time on security than they did a few years ago

#opensource #maintainer #survey

3 min read

Mikhail Shevtsov

Sep 26 '24

Why GitLab On-Premises?

#gitlab #opensource #devops #webdev

2 min read

Eze Lanza

Sep 26 '24

S1E3 : Code & Deploy: Craft a Very Demure, Very Mindful Skincare Routine With GenA

#ai #rag #opensource #programming

1 min read

Sep 26 '24

Data Engineering in Observability: The Backbone of Modern Monitoring

#dataengineering #observability #opensource #banking

5 min read

Tib

Oct 29 '24

My London Perl And Raku Workshop 2024

#techtalks #perl #opensource #conference

6 min read

ym qu

Oct 30 '24

File Cleaner Pro - A Python Learning Project for File Management

#ai #opensource #python #learning

3 min read

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Celeste van der Watt for Platform.sh

Oct 30 '24

Compare, pinpoint, and deliver more efficient apps with continuous profiling

#devops #productivity #performance #opensource

1 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

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Guillermo Ruiz for AWS Español

Oct 30 '24

Boletín AWS Open Source, October Edition

#opensource #aws

10 min read

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