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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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Carrie

Oct 15 '24

Open API Usage Tutorial for Open Source WAF SafeLine

#webdev #beginners #opensource #cybersecurity

2 min read

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Francesco Ciulla

Oct 15 '24

Iterators in Rust

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

6 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 13 '24

My first time participating in Hacktoberfest 2024

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Justin Young for Excalibur

Oct 12 '24

Contributing to Excalibur

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

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K Abhiram

Oct 15 '24

Hacktoberfest: Beyond contributions

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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Oct 11 '24

Week 1 of Hactoberfest 2024 : Contributor

#hacktoberfest #opensource #devchallenge

3 min read

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Sep 28 '24

Top Hacktoberfest Projects to Contribute to in 2024

#hacktoberfest #programming #opensource #github

5 min read

Rahul Chakradhari

Oct 11 '24

First hacktober experience as a contributor

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Osmar Montesinos 🇦🇶

Oct 15 '24

How to win a hackaton (spoiler: Power of Friendship)

#hackathon #react #api #opensource

7 min read

Oct 14 '24

Recipe Generator Powered by CopilotKit Chatbot

#copilotkit #webdev #opensource #nextjs

1 min read

Carrie

Oct 14 '24

Top 6 Free and Open Source Cybersecurity Tools for Startups

#cybersecurity #opensource #beginners #startup

3 min read

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Oct 13 '24

My Journey in Open-Source Library Development

#opensource #dotnet #csharp #programming

8 min read

Shalinda jayasinghe

Sep 11 '24

Comparison of Monday.com, Odoo, Work360, and Zoho

#tutorial #beginners #productivity #opensource

2 min read

TheoForger

Sep 10 '24

First Day on My First Project

#opensource #beginners #rust

3 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 12 '24

My 2024 Hacktoberfest Maintainer Experience: 💔 Building and Growing ImagePro 🚀

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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