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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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ABIJITH

Apr 2 '23

GIT:Basic commands

#git #opensource #githubactions #github

4 min read

Lume

Apr 1 '23

Google Announces Open-Sourcing of Their Ranking Algorithm

#news #opensource #google #community

1 min read

Nir Gazit

Mar 30 '23

Building a new type of testing framework

#discuss #opensource #testing #javascript

2 min read

SyedAsadRazaDevops

Apr 2 '23

How To Deploy Jitsi Meet(video conference) on Ubuntu

#jitsi #meet #jitsimeet #opensource

2 min read

Jude Ndubuisi 🥷🧑‍💻

Apr 2 '23

Open Source Made Easy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Contributing to Your First Project

#opensource #github #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

Archer Allstars

Mar 31 '23

Enable the magical Multi-Gen LRU AKA MGLRU on openSUSE Tumblewed, stay away from OOM today!

#linux #opensource #computerscience #productivity

3 min read

I-dodo

Apr 1 '23

Use ChatGPT locally!

#chatgpt #openai #opensource #ai

1 min read

Apr 11 '23

Top 5 Best open-source headless eCommerce Platforms in 2023

#opensource #headless #ecommerce

3 min read

Apr 1 '23

Scaling trochoid's and cycloid's input parameters with the Spyrograph `scale` method

#showdev #python #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Leonynn for Selefra

Mar 21 '23

Selefra: The Open-Source Policy-as-Code Tool for Terraform and Multi-Cloud

#opensource #aws #cloud #terraform

5 min read

Lyn Muldrow for Tidelift

Mar 2 '23

Five minute maintainers: Meet Felix Böhm 👋🏾

#programming #opensource #devops #javascript

1 min read

Ryuya

Mar 31 '23

Translate Markdown to Any Language (GitHub Bot)

#opensource #i18n #ai #chatgpt

2 min read

Teja Kummarikuntla

Mar 29 '23

10 open-source alternatives to run your businesses

#javascript #python #opensource #startup

3 min read

Dmitrii Bezrukov

Mar 31 '23

Boosting Greenplum security

#greenplum #database #security #opensource

2 min read

Mar 30 '23

Spyrograph is looking for beginners to open source to contribute!

#codenewbie #contributorswanted #opensource #python

3 min read

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