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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 How I Contributed to Open-Source While Learning Svelte

Jan 21 '24

How I Contributed to Open-Source While Learning Svelte

#opensource #github #svelte #learning

7 min read

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Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Jan 16 '24

Fantastic JSON Schemas and where to find them

#webdev #opensource #codenewbie #json

2 min read

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Renaldi for AWS Community Builders

Jan 21 '24

My Journey as an AWS Community Builder: Insights, Experiences, and Recommendations

#aws #ai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for A Beginner's Guide for Open-Source Contributions

Jan 21 '24

A Beginner's Guide for Open-Source Contributions

#opensource #beginners #tutorial #learning

5 min read

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Devanand Premkumar

Jan 21 '24

Join the XposedOrNot Hackathon 2024: Innovate for Internet Safety!

#hackathon #opensource #coding #cybersecurity

2 min read

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Alex M for Symbiote.js

Jan 17 '24

Symbiote.js 2.0

#news #javascript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

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Jan 19 '24

10 Game-Changing Tools You should Bookmark Now😎🔖

#webdev #productivity #opensource #programming

3 min read

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ShatilKhan

Jan 20 '24

Unleashing Open Source Potential: My Journey with Amazon OpenSearch🎯

#opensource #aws #codenewbie #opensearch

4 min read

Nacho Vazquez for LumberjackJS

Jan 20 '24

Announcing Lumberjack v16: Life improvements, deprecations and an ambicius roadmap

#webdev #angular #opensource #logging

2 min read

tanya rai

Jan 20 '24

Prototype to Prod: Any model, any modality 🔥

#beginners #programming #opensource #ai

1 min read

Cover image for 5-Step Approach: Dry Run Kubernetes Resources with ProjectSveltos

Eleni Grosdouli

Jan 20 '24

5-Step Approach: Dry Run Kubernetes Resources with ProjectSveltos

#kubernetes #opensource #tutorial #devops

8 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jan 12 '24

What is your favorite open source alternative to proprietary software?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for ‼️ Top 5 Open-Source LLM Evaluation Frameworks in 2026 🎉🔥

Jeffrey Ip

Jan 17 '24

‼️ Top 5 Open-Source LLM Evaluation Frameworks in 2026 🎉🔥

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

3 min read

Jan 20 '24

Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained

#webdev #opensource #javascript #nextjs

3 min read

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Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Jan 19 '24

How to use your Thunderbird-generated OpenPGP key to set your Web Key Directory(WKD)

#thunderbird #webdev #openpgp #opensource

3 min read

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