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Open Source

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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Aug 13

Open Source, an Adventure

#discuss #opensource #motivation

3 min read

Atharva Chandwadkar

Aug 4

Introduction to Git & GitHub

#opensource #github #computerscience

2 min read

Michael Haberman

for Aspecto

Aug 12

Trace-Based Testing with OpenTelemetry: Meet Open Source Malabi

#microservices #opensource #webdev #testing

7 min read

Jul 29

Release 1.56 of perl-workflow, a bug fix release

#perl #opensource #release

2 min read

Muhammad Ali (Nerdjfpb)

Aug 11

Chatwoot (a zendesk open source alternative) with Next js

#programming #webdev #codenewbie #opensource

5 min read

Jul 27

Luos new feature: manage Pipe type and command.

#embedded #opensource #release #luos

2 min read

Christina Gorton

for The DEV Team

Aug 10

Bug Smash is Back — Join In! 🐛

#devbugsmash #opensource #forem #contributorswanted

4 min read

Muthu Annamalai Venkatachalam

Aug 11

How To Contribute To Open-Source Projects As A Beginner

#github #opensource #beginners #tutorial

5 min read

Jul 26

Help Your Future Self: Bare Necessities for All Log Lines

#showdev #devops #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Aug 11

All about k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

#kubernetes #opensource #containers #github

5 min read

Aug 11

Build long-lasting customer relations through Chatwoot, the ultimate opensource customer engagement suite.

#chatwoot #customersupport #opensource #customerengagement

9 min read

Jul 19

A Look at Selenium and Its Alternative Solution for 2021 and Beyond

#opensource #testing #testdev

4 min read

Ybrahin Martinez

Aug 10

Post #5: Everything almost done

#python #weeklyretro #opensource #gsoc

2 min read

Aug 10

Manually Install VScodium extension on linux

#linux #vscode #opensource

1 min read

Aug 1

My newest open source video game: "Rue"

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #opensource

1 min read

Aug 10

How I Switched from Google Analytics to a Better Open Source Alternative

#webdev #opensource #performance

3 min read

Aug 9

How to use Luos with Python? Step 1 - Install and config Pyluos

#python #luos #embedded #opensource

1 min read