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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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Palomino for Logto

Jun 14 '24

Unveiling URI, URL, and URN

#webdev #coding #programming #opensource

5 min read

Jun 14 '24

L'Open Source et Moi

#opensource #wiki #mediawiki #goma

3 min read

Kiplangat Korir

Jun 14 '24

🚀 Open-Sourcing Truss Networks: Be Part of the Professional Networking Revolution! 🚀

#opensource #webdev #javascript #programming

2 min read

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Birusha Ndegeya for Kali Academy

Jun 14 '24

My Journey Internship at Kali Academy

#career #opensource #programming #coding

2 min read

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May 15 '24

     Master GitHub with Microsoft’s Comprehensive Learning Resources!

#github #githubcopilot #opensource #git

2 min read

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Landry Bitege for Kali Academy

Jun 14 '24

Mon aventure en tant que stagiaire chez Kali Academy : Une immersion dans l'open source

#opensource #programming #career #coding

3 min read

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Jun 13 '24

Goyave v5: the reborn REST framework aims higher

#news #go #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Sam

Jun 13 '24

Contributing to ODK: the go-to mobile form data collection tool

#opensource #data #community

4 min read

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Jun 14 '24

Turbocharge Your OpenDevin Development: A Deep Dive into a Time-Saving Bash Script

#opendevin #ai #opensource #development

3 min read

Jun 13 '24

Release 0.38.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - yet another maintenance release

#githubaction #opensource #release

3 min read

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Jun 13 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: Cards example explained.

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #shadcnui

3 min read

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Opemipo Disu for Latitude

Jun 11 '24

Mastering Embedded Analytics: A Getting Started Guide 📊

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

9 min read

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Antonio

Jun 13 '24

Sponsor your repo! Down below!

#discuss #opensource #webdev #programming

1 min read

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Harry

May 24 '24

Best Practices for Managing the Security Risks Associated with Open-Source Software in 2024

#webdev #opensource #productivity #learning

10 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jun 12 '24

Cultivating Open Source Community

#opensource #community

9 min read

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