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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 Elevating Your Junior Developer Career: Strategies for Standing Out

Sep 23 '24

Elevating Your Junior Developer Career: Strategies for Standing Out

#beginners #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Abhishek Ray for Opslane

Aug 21 '24

Surviving Your First On-Call Shift: 5 Essential Tips

#devops #oncall #opensource #productivity

2 min read

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Sep 24 '24

Devchat: Building my first social app

#webdev #opensource #sideprojects #developer

3 min read

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Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

Sep 23 '24

Optimizing OpenStreetMap’s DevOps Efficiency: A Data-Driven DORA Metrics Analysis

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #development #devops

7 min read

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Sep 22 '24

Fly with AI Copilots using CopilotKit 🪁

#opensource #reactnative #tutorial #ai

7 min read

Aug 21 '24

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Christopher Chhim

Sep 13 '24

Improving the Development Life Cycle

#softwaredevelopment #opensource #productivity #tutorial

2 min read

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BekahHW for Virtual Coffee

Oct 1 '24

Opening Our Hearts and Our Repo: Virtual Coffee's Journey to Open Source

#opensource #community

2 min read

Sep 23 '24

Release 0.42.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - yet another maintenance release

#githubaction #opensource #release

2 min read

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Anmol Baranwal for Requestly

Sep 5 '24

How to Build Frontend Apps 10x Faster

#opensource #javascript #programming #webdev

9 min read

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Sep 23 '24

Stop saying “you forgot to …” in code review

#javascript #typescript #opensource #zustand

3 min read

Cover image for 16 Open Source Alternatives to Replace Popular SaaS Software & Apps 👨‍💻🔥

Madza

Oct 22 '24

16 Open Source Alternatives to Replace Popular SaaS Software & Apps 👨‍💻🔥

#opensource #github #saas #productivity

8 min read

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Sep 16 '24

50 for FOSS needs your help

#opensource #programming

3 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 24 '24

Building a culture of shared ownership

#opensource

5 min read

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Sep 19 '24

How to Publish a Golang Package

#go #cli #opensource #programming

3 min read

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