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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.

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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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Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Apr 26

The "Iron Triangle" in Software Projects: Balancing Scope, Time, and Cost Without Compromising Quality

#webdev #productivity #devops #opensource

6 min read

Simone Morellato

Apr 26

Your Kubernetes clusters deserve to stay clean. Your platform deserves full control. Now you can have both.

#kubernetes #devops #opensource

4 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Apr 25

Introducing: Project of the Week!

#discuss #opensource #programming #webdev

1 min read

Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Apr 25

Part 1: The Memento Problem with AI Memory

#ai #opensource #rag #memory

2 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 26

Understanding Types of Users in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Apr 26

How to Write Better Commits and Pull Requests for Clean and Scalable Projects

#git #bestpractices #softwaredevelopment #opensource

4 min read

Clelia (Astra) Bertelli

Apr 25

Ingest (almost) any non-PDF document in a vector database, effortlessly

#python #ai #opensource #vectordatabase

3 min read

Apr 25

Every Developer Needs to Self-Host

#cloud #devops #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Olatunde salami

Apr 25

Day 4 of My 30-Day Linux Challenge: Exploring Linux Permissions

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

Apr 25

Data Warehouses and Data Lakes: Understanding Modern Data Storage Paradigms 📦

#opensource #presto #datascience #dataengineering

2 min read

Carrie

Apr 25

Think you can outsmart a WAF? Try SafeLine!

#waf #webdev #redteam #opensource

1 min read

Apr 25

Developer Tooling #001

#programming #tooling #productivity #opensource

1 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Apr 25

Taranis AI: Revolutionizing OSINT with the Power of AI

#osint #ai #nlp #opensource

3 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

Apr 25

Introduction to Presto: Open Source SQL Query Engine that's changing Big Data Analytics

#opensource #presto #dataengineering

2 min read

Blurbify

Apr 25

Open Source AI: The Double-Edged Sword Devs Can’t Stop Talking About

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #deepseek

2 min read

Apr 25

Expose your local code to ChatGPT (securely, no API keys) – GPT Code Viewer (Node.js + cloudflared)

#webdev #opensource #chatgpt #node

1 min read

Apr 25

OpenTelemetry at Scale: Controlling your Fleet

#opentelemetry #opensource #cloudnative

4 min read

Carrie

Apr 25

How to Protect the SafeLine Management Interface

#opensource #beginners #tutorial #security

1 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 25

Special Permissions in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Shreyash Srivastava

Apr 25

My Experience Participating in KWoC

#opensource #kwoc #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Apr 25

Decentralized Governance in Open Source: Bridging Innovation and Community

#decentralizedgovernance #opensource #blockchain

6 min read

Apr 25

File structure in Docmost, an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion

#opensource #react #docmost #filestructure

3 min read

Apr 25

Deutsche Bank's Embrace of Open Source: Revolutionizing Financial Technology

#deutschebank #opensource #financialtechnology

8 min read

Apr 25

Exploring the Intersection of Cyberwarfare and Open Source License Compliance

#cyberwarfare #opensource #licensecompliance

8 min read

NocoBase

Apr 25

[Tutorial] Chapter 12: Meeting Rooms Booking: WorkFlows & SQL statements

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #learning

9 min read

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