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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 28

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#database #datascience #programming #opensource

6 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Dec 28

Year 2022 Streaming Wrap-Up

#apachepulsar #opensource #apacheflink #apachenifi

32 min read

Dec 26

Badger, or how to make things easier

#markdown #github #opensource #python

1 min read

Dec 29

My First Code Commit in Ruby

#ruby #opensource

6 min read

mohsen

Dec 29

Chance to work on open-source and get $20,000

#opensource #github

1 min read

Nisar Hassan Naqvi

Dec 27

Building a free Open-source portfolio template using HTML, CSS and JS | Part 2

#webdev #html #css #opensource

1 min read

Chandrasekhar Sah

Dec 27

Why Is Open Source CRM Software Beneficial to Your Business

#opensourcecrm #opensource #opensourcecrmsoftware #crm

2 min read

Johannes Dienst

Dec 22

Add Spellchecker to Your Node.js Project

#tutorial #opensource #node

3 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Dec 19

FLiP Stack Weekly 19-dec-2022

#apachepulsar #opensource #apacheflink #apachenifi

7 min read

Alexey Timin for ReductStore

Dec 19