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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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21+ Best Free and Open-Source Icon Libraries for 2026

#icons #webdev #javascript #opensource

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Building a Blazing-Fast URL Shortener in Go 🚀

#webdev #go #projects #opensource

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Jet Xu

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#ai #productivity #github #opensource

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Akash Jana

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Bye-bye Passwords: Embracing Secure, Hassle-Free Passkeys

#hacktoberfest #hanko #opensource #webdev

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Smit

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Why Llama AI is Popular

#programming #ai #python #opensource

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51 Vaishnavi Raykar

Oct 27 '24

Daily Quote App

#hacktoberfest #opensource #githubcopilot

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#vectordatabase #milvus #opensource #database

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Qian Li for DBOS, Inc.

Oct 22 '24

How to build a crashproof customer service agent in <80 lines with Swarm 💪🐝

#tutorial #python #opensource #programming

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Nikhilesh Mauje

Oct 25 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey as a First-Time Contributor

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Vardhaman Bhandari

Oct 27 '24

My Experience With Modern Open Source CRM: Twenty CRM

#opensource #hacktoberfest #productivity

6 min read

Nov 8 '24

Cryptography concepts that we all developers missed. But we should have known.

#learning #opensource #programming #webdev

6 min read

Oct 27 '24

Managing LLM prompts in DotNet with DotPrompt

#dotnet #promptengineering #genai #opensource

5 min read

Shubham Bendkhale

Oct 24 '24

Math 4 Python 🧮 - Learn Python Through Math for Hacktoberfest 2024

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Oct 26 '24

Building an Interactive Flashcard and Quiz Generator App

#opensource #genai #webdev #ai

2 min read

Shubham Bendkhale

Oct 24 '24

🎉My journey of Contributing at Hacktoberfest🚀

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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