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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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Dec 4 '23

4 Ways to Participate in Advent of Spin - A Wasm Coding Challenge

#programming #webdev #opensource #webassembly

3 min read

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Dec 15 '23

The US Government, Open Source Software and Analyzing 786 Pages of Responses - Highlights

#opensource #techpolicy

19 min read

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Programming with Shahan

Dec 10 '23

🔥14 Excellent Open-source Projects for Developers🚀

#opensource #webdev #programming #productivity

7 min read

webVerts

Dec 15 '23

Imperfect Code, Perfect Mission: A Non-Coder's Accidental Journey for a Safer Web

#discuss #beginners #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Katie Liu

Dec 14 '23

Contributing to a JavaScript project!

#opensource #react #chatgpt #typescript

5 min read

Omer Morad

Dec 12 '23

Unit Test Like a Pro: Automock, My Open Source Answer to Mocking Frustration 🤓💡🎭

#programming #opensource #typescript #backend

5 min read

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Chloe Williams for Zilliz

Dec 14 '23

Open Source Advent

#beginners #opensource #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

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Pradumna Saraf for Livecycle

Dec 13 '23

How to Get Preview Environments for Every Pull Request

#opensource #devops #github #programming

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Dec 11 '23

AI + OSS

#discuss #opensource #ai

1 min read

Nov 24 '23

Seeking Community Feedback for Open Source CI/CD Platform

#opensource

2 min read

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Philip Miglinci for Distr

Dec 11 '23

👋 Why we say GOODBYE to HELM 👋

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

9 min read

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Dec 14 '23

Enforce API Stability with Zod and Argos

#javascript #testing #opensource #node

2 min read

Katie Liu

Dec 14 '23

React, TypeScript, and follow up contributions

#opensource #react #chatgpt #typescript

5 min read

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Juraj for Cyclops UI

Dec 8 '23

Five tools to add to your K8s cluster

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #tooling

6 min read

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Utpal Nadiger for Digger

Dec 11 '23

Top 10 terraform tools you should know about.

#devops #terraform #infrastructureascode #opensource

6 min read

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