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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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Marine for Taipy

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#opensource #python #programming #coding

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Eden Federman for Odigos

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#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

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Ibra Sha

Nov 27

🚀 Hey Dev.to Community!

#gamedev #programming #productivity #opensource

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Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

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#opensource #llm #generativeai #apachekafka

4 min read

Saurabh Rai for Swirl

Nov 26

Securely deploying Swirl in Azure.

#programming #python #opensource #devops

3 min read

Kazane Shimizu for Collections

Nov 27

Can I create another WordPress that satisfies humanity?

#react #wordpress #opensource #jamstack

6 min read

Beπ ✨

Nov 27

Emailnator CLI : Discreet Email Generation and Consultation

#npm #opensource #tooling #cli

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 27

AWS open source newsletter, #181

#opensource #aws

18 min read

Nov 26

Disrupting the Status Quo: PR-Agents Reimagined

#ai #productivity #tooling #opensource

13 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Nov 26

Contributing to ChatCraft