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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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Luis Fernando De Pombo

Jul 31 '23

LLMs as compilers

#gpt3 #ai #programming #opensource

5 min read

Jul 1 '23

With regards to Redhat’s recent decision…

#redhat #opensource #centos #linux

7 min read

neon_arch

Jul 1 '23

How to Wrap Your Errors with Enums when using Error-stack

#rust #opensource

11 min read

Jul 31 '23

🎤🎶 Elevate Your Sound Game: Recording and Processing Audio with Python! 🎧🔊

#python #opensource #audioprocessing #github

2 min read

Jul 30 '23

🇵🇹 GitHub Portugal: the Portuguese development community on GitHub 🇵🇹

#development #opensource #community #portugal

2 min read

Jul 30 '23

Level Up Your React Game🚀

#webdev #react #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

Jul 20 '23

BEST Postman Alternative: Hoppscotch 🛸 - open source, self hosted API Development Ecosystem

#opensource #postmanalternative #api #selfhost

3 min read

Marc Seitz

Jul 21 '23

Building any open-source projects this weekend?

#discuss #weekend #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Jun 26 '23

FLaNK Stack Weekly on 26 June 2023

#apacheflink #opensource #apachenifi #apachekafka

5 min read

Pratik S.

Jul 29 '23

Lion's Share of Python in CNCF Projects

#opensource #cncf #python #github

4 min read

DASWU

Jun 30 '23

Choosing JuiceFS over s3fs and Alluxio for Our Ultra-Heterogeneous Computing Cluster

#opensource

12 min read

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Jul 21 '23

Creating a Game-Changer in Job Search: An Open Source ATS Resume Matcher

#javascript #opensource #python #machinelearning

3 min read

Sandeep Parmar for New Relic

Jun 27 '23

Hands-on OpenTelemetry: Troubleshoot issues with your instrumented apps

#devops #monitoring #opensource #cloud

17 min read

Divyansh Singh for OpenSauced

Jul 26 '23

How to Change a Webpage UI with a Chrome Extension

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

4 min read

Fernando for IDURAR AI , Inc | Where Ai Build Software

Jul 28 '23

Mastering Programming Interviews: A Gateway to Software Development Success

#programming #interview #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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