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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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Cover image for My First Hacktoberfest as a Maintainer: The Highs and Lows

Vignesh J

Oct 12 '24

My First Hacktoberfest as a Maintainer: The Highs and Lows

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Did You Know? Prometheus Doesn’t Support Built-In Data Deletion!

Oct 16 '24

Did You Know? Prometheus Doesn’t Support Built-In Data Deletion!

#discuss #prometheus #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for Navigating the Code Maze: Hacktoberfest 2024

Oct 12 '24

Navigating the Code Maze: Hacktoberfest 2024

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Carrie

Oct 16 '24

Addressing Configuration Issues of SafeLine WAF

#beginners #opensource #cybersecurity

5 min read

Cover image for Iterators in Rust - Map, Filter, Reduce

Francesco Ciulla

Oct 15 '24

Iterators in Rust - Map, Filter, Reduce

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

6 min read

Vivesh

Oct 16 '24

Release Channel in K8s

#kubernetes #opensource #beginners #devops

2 min read

Oct 15 '24

Engy, an LLM-powered tool to generate webapp w/ backend for quick prototyping and iteration

#ai #python #programming #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for How to make your Express app 9x faster (and type-safe)

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Oct 7 '24

How to make your Express app 9x faster (and type-safe)

#javascript #typescript #node #opensource

16 min read

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Antonio

Sep 25 '24

Show us your open-source project!

#discuss #webdev #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Cover image for Hacktoberfest'24 - A Journey to Remember

Vansh Chaurasiya

Oct 15 '24

Hacktoberfest'24 - A Journey to Remember

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Getting Started with Location Tracking: Overcoming Common Development Challenges

Sneh Shah

Oct 15 '24

Getting Started with Location Tracking: Overcoming Common Development Challenges

#discuss #programming #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Oct 15 '24

My journey of Contributing at Hacktoberfest

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Oct 15 '24

Understanding Web Functionality: Server-Side, Client-Side, State, and Sessions

#beginners #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for Hacktoberfest 2024: My Journey of Open-Source Growth and Collaboration

Arnab Roy

Oct 12 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: My Journey of Open-Source Growth and Collaboration

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Generate Python Apps with GenAI

Oct 15 '24

Generate Python Apps with GenAI

#opensource #genai #python #react

2 min read

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