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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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Dec 10 '24

Want a Remote Internship Working on Free Software?

#opensource #internship #javascript #outreachy

3 min read

Dec 10 '24

Building Glide: A Modern E-commerce Platform with Angular 17 and .NET 8

#webdev #angular #dotnet #opensource

3 min read

Uday Rana

Dec 10 '24

My Goals In Working On Open Source

#opensource

2 min read

Dec 10 '24

Migrating from DIY ELK to a full SaaS platform

#opensource #observability #saas

4 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Dec 9 '24

Encore Launch Week Day 1: Custom Middleware

#typescript #opensource #javascript #backend

2 min read

Tania Chakraborty

Dec 9 '24

🌐 AI Agents Are Like Fish Tanks 🐠

#discuss #ai #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Sebastian Tiedtke

Dec 10 '24

Owl Store: A Type System for Environment Variables to Specify, Resolve, and Verify Correctness

#programming #opensource #computerscience #devops

20 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Nov 6 '24

Synchronizing Data from InfluxDB to Doris with SeaTunnel

#apacheseatunnel #data #opensource #doris

3 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Dec 9 '24

Goliat Dashboard updates and progress

#opensource #terraform #opentofu #development

2 min read

Dec 9 '24

AI and All Data Weekly for 09 Dec 2024

#opensource #genai #llm #rag

5 min read

Dec 9 '24

Your coding year in review

#javascript #github #opensource #react

1 min read

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⚡ 🚀 Top 10 Trending GitHub Repositories, December 09, 2024 🔥

#webdev #opensource #beginners #github

3 min read

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Dec 9 '24

KaibanJS v0.11.0: Empowering Developers with Advanced RAG Tools

#news #javascript #ai #opensource

2 min read

Dec 9 '24

Automating Workflows with AI: Smarter Integrations with Low-Code Platforms GUIDE

#lowcode #beginners #ai #opensource

3 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Requestly

Dec 2 '24

The Best Open Source API Mocking Tool for developers (With examples)

#programming #api #beginners #opensource

10 min read

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