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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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Abdulmumin Akinde

Nov 24 '24

Introducing LiteLookup: Your Terminal Assistant

#productivity #python #opensource #programming

4 min read

Nov 25 '24

The Final Stretch of My Open Source Journey: Part 1

#opensource #webdev #github #programming

2 min read

Yash Kumar Saini

Nov 20 '24

RAG Chatbot

#python #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Nov 24 '24

Goliat Shield: Your first line of defense

#opensource #terraform #development #iac

2 min read

Nov 22 '24

How to publish your node.js package to NPM

#opensource #github #node #npm

1 min read

Henrique Sagara

Oct 21 '24

Hacktoberfest week 3- Online Auction System

#webdev #hacktoberfest #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Kshitij

Nov 23 '24

15 ways to use Jenkins for Continuous Integration (CI) with examples

#devops #beginners #opensource #docker

5 min read

Siddharth Bhalsod

Nov 23 '24

Open-Source AI Models: A Comprehensive Overview

#news #aimodels #opensource #ai

5 min read

Arindam Majumder

Oct 25 '24

9 Interesting Open Source Projects You Should Explore Right Now🥷🏻 🎉

#opensource #webdev #beginners #javascript

10 min read

Toby Chui

Nov 23 '24

Zoraxy vs Nginx Proxy Manager

#webdev #proxy #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Nov 23 '24

What’s New in WordPress 6.7: Key Features and Updates for Developers

#wordpress #php #opensource #lowcode

1 min read

Nov 23 '24

Contributing to ChatCraft

#typescript #ai #opensource #github

2 min read

Nov 23 '24

Contributing to ORAssistant

#python #rag #github #opensource

3 min read

Nov 23 '24

Publishing my Tool

#opensource #typescript #git #npm

2 min read

arinak1017

Nov 23 '24

Publishing ADDCOM!

#opensource #python #cli

4 min read

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