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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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Yuri for Supabase

Aug 27

Introducing New Platform Access Control

#webdev #programming #database #opensource

2 min read

Jose Rodríguez

Aug 28

Taskwarrior: The Command-Line Task Manager for Power Users

#taskwarrior #productivity #taskmanagement #opensource

2 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 28

Color palette in branding: How Logto generate a custom color scheme for your brand

#webdev #opensource #identity #design

4 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 28

Create a remark plugin to extract MDX reading time

#webdev #mdx #opensource #identity

4 min read

Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Aug 28

Thunderbird Council, #ChatControl, and me.

#chatcontrol #web #opensource

2 min read

Guillermo Ruiz for AWS Español

Aug 28

Boletín AWS Open Source, AI Edition

#opensource #aws #genai #ai

18 min read

Ujjwal Raj

Aug 28

Inviting C++ Contributors for Hacktoberfest 2024

#hacktoberfest #cpp #opensource #programming

1 min read

Aug 27

Celebrating 100th Open Source Contributions: A Journey of Growth and Collaboration.

#opensource #webdev #github #javascript

5 min read

Lulu

Aug 27

Protect Your Website Like a Pro: SafeLine, the Open-Source WAF

#cybersecurity #opensource