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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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Apr 24 '23

OpenCommit: CLI to generate impressive commits in 1 second with GPT 🤯🔫 (v 2.0)

#git #productivity #ai #opensource

1 min read

Nada Ezzat

Mar 30 '23

What about OOP in Typescript 🤔A quick overview

#typescript #oop #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Apr 28 '23

Free Production Ready Next.js Template

#nextjs #react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

EMQ Technologies for EMQ Technologies

Apr 28 '23

A Comprehensive Comparison of Open Source MQTT Brokers 2023

#mqtt #opensource #iot

8 min read

Sebastian Huckleberry

Apr 27 '23

Extension to directly run code blocks from your markdown editor

#vscode #opensource #beginners #devops

1 min read

Void⚡

Apr 27 '23

Non-coders Guide to Contributing to Open Source

#opensource #tutorial #beginners #career

2 min read

Adnan Rahić for Kubeshop

Apr 27 '23

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023: Highlights from Amsterdam

#webdev #kubernetes #opensource #cncf

5 min read

Apr 27 '23

Using APIs with AI

#ai #python #opensource #api

2 min read

Medea

Apr 27 '23

Global CSS Art

#css #opensource #contributorswanted #beginners

1 min read

Apr 27 '23

Adding permissions for Vendure plugins

#opensource #webdev #vendure #tutorial

2 min read

Nicklas Gellner for Medusa

Apr 26 '23

Introducing Medusa’s Plugins Library for Payments, CMS, Notifications, and more.

#news #opensource #programming #webdev

3 min read

Apr 27 '23

LLMs using a single API

#ai #chatgpt #python #opensource

2 min read

Apr 25 '23

I bet you have never used this theme. Ever.

#vscode #productivity #extension #opensource

3 min read

Brian Bethencourt for The DEV Team

Apr 25 '23

Community Discussion Thread — GitHub + DEV Hackathon 2023

#help #githubhack23 #github #opensource

1 min read

Apr 27 '23

How I built a chat widget with ChatGPT in under an hour

#chatgpt #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

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