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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 to Become a Better Open Source Maintainer

Ayu Adiati

Nov 30 '23

How to Become a Better Open Source Maintainer

#discuss #opensource #codenewbie #webdev

5 min read

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Mark Phelps for Flipt

Dec 3 '23

Save 500+ Hours of Maintenance Work With These 3 GitHub Actions

#github #opensource #buildinpublic #githubactions

3 min read

Weasely

Nov 13 '23

Unleashing Tiny-Link: A Swift Node.js Module for URL Shortening with Redis

#showdev #node #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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Christina Gorton

Nov 29 '23

Building Thriving Communities: Strategies for New Community Managers

#community #opensource #beginners

6 min read

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Thibaut F. Batale

Dec 3 '23

Embarking on a Professional Growth Adventure: Insights from my LFX Mentorship Program at LitmusChaos

#opensource #webdev #programming #beginners

6 min read

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Konstantin Tarkus for Kriasoft

Dec 3 '23

Major Update to React Starter Kit: Welcome Joy UI and Jotai!

#webdev #react #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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Hamzat Abdul-muizz

Dec 2 '23

All About Open Source

#opensource #growth

6 min read

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Jan 17 '24

🏞️5 beautiful open-source web apps to learn from and get inspired 🙇‍♀️💡

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

6 min read

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Nov 4 '23

Preparing Your TypeScript Project for Consistent Contribution

#opensource #typescript #programming #beginners

2 min read

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Dec 2 '23

Create Your Own Local Chatbot with Next.js, Ollama, and ModelFusion

#javascript #ai #opensource #beginners

7 min read

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Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Oct 30 '23

FLaNK Stack Weekly for 30 Oct 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

4 min read

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Dec 6 '23

Color Guessing Game JavaScript Project With Source Code

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

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Dec 3 '23

An open-source project by Python for Upwork Freelancers "RSS Feed Fetcher"

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Dec 3 '23

CodiumAI PR-Agent Dominates the Dev World with Versatility and Open-Source Power

#codiumai #opensource #githubcopilot #pullrequest

7 min read

Yousef

Nov 3 '23

Enhancing Your Open-Source Project with Static Analysis Tools

#opensource #csharp #beginners #documentation

3 min read

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