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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 Hacktoberfest: How You Can Contribute to Open Source and Make a Difference in 2024

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Hacktoberfest: How You Can Contribute to Open Source and Make a Difference in 2024

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

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Oct 1 '24

How Project Ideas Can Come From Anywhere - My Open Source Daily Puzzle Game

#opensource #webdev #react #typescript

2 min read

Kalpesh Bhalekar

Sep 30 '24

Best Hacktoberfest Projects to Contribute to in 2024!🚀

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #coding

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Guillermo Ruiz for AWS Español

Sep 30 '24

Boletín AWS Open Source, September Edition

#aws #opensource #developers

9 min read

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Sparrow: API Sidekick You Needed

#showdev #api #opensource #github

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Antonio

Sep 27 '24

500 views on the new Landing page in 7 hours!

#webdev #javascript #opensource #beginners

1 min read

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Vaunt

Aug 27 '24

Introducing Vaunt Open Source Community: Supercharge Your Open-Source Journey

#github #opensource #productivity #community

2 min read

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Nixys

Sep 30 '24

The Essentials of Backup Rotation with nxs-backup

#devops #opensource #backup

6 min read

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NocoBase

Sep 29 '24

5 Best Open-Source No-Code Tools for Project Management

#opensource #github #lowcode

9 min read

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Tramposo

Sep 19 '24

Building a Terminal TODO App in Rust

#rust #terminal #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Sep 29 '24

Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 1.93 released to CPAN

#opensource #perl #release #openssl

1 min read

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Ghoshan J

Aug 31 '24

My First KubeCon Experience: KubeCon 2024 Hong Kong

#kubecon #opensource #platform

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Arindam Majumder

Sep 30 '24

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#opensource #webdev #beginners #hacktoberfest

7 min read

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Sep 29 '24

Using LLaMA Models with Groq: A Beginner's Guide

#ai #python #opensource #webdev

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NocoBase

Sep 29 '24

Deep Dive: Low Code/No Code Integration Capabilities

#opensource #github #lowcode #development

6 min read

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