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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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Sep 14 '23

Why I quit open source

#opensource #mentalhealth #burnout #hobbies

7 min read

Sep 28 '23

GitHub and Developer Ecosystem Control

#discuss #github #opensource

9 min read

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overFlow

Sep 28 '23

My Vanilla Fresh Hacktoberfest23 Pledge

#hacktoberfest23 #javascript #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 26 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: Beyond Green Squares

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #hacktoberfest23

6 min read

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Nevo David for Gitroom

Sep 24 '23

5 steps to build an authority for you and your repository

#discuss #webdev #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

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Julia Furst Morgado

Sep 28 '23

How to Contribute to CNCF Glossary Localization - No Code Needed -

#opensource #tutorial #cloud #beginners

6 min read

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Yeom suyun

Sep 28 '23

How to create a simple VSCE for CSS Lube

#webdev #javascript #opensource #css

3 min read

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guto

Sep 18 '23

How to write a CRUD CLI using Elixir and ScyllaDB

#scylladb #elixir #opensource #tutorial

18 min read

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Abhay

Sep 27 '23

Join Our Hacktoberfest Celebration and Contribute to Our Programming Blog!

#hack23maintainer #hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 28 '23

The cost of false positives in software security, Part 1: Small applications

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #security

6 min read

Yann Tavernier for Gravitee

Sep 28 '23

Write your own policy with Gravitee.io API Management 4.0.0

#graviteeio #api #opensource #apim

15 min read

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Celeste van der Watt

Sep 28 '23

What makes our new PaaS offering, Upsun, so unique on the sustainability front? 🤔

#webdev #devops #tooling #opensource

1 min read

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Tymoteusz Stępień

Sep 28 '23

Reality Check: Cypress' Actions Speak Louder than Words

#cypress #opensource #testing #programming

2 min read

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Sep 27 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: Where Open Source Enthusiasts of All Levels Unite

#opensource #hacktoberfest23 #programming

3 min read

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Sep 27 '23

Open Source Software - A New Form of Communism?

#opensource #community

3 min read

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