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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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11 Best AI Chat Tools for Developers in 2024

#opensource #productivity #ai #programming

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Nirmalya Mondal

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🎉 Hacktoberfest & Durga Puja: A Bengali's October of Celebration 🌸

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

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Manish Kr Prasad

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Introducing Hanko: the open-source alternative to clerk

#webdev #authmanagement #opensource #alternative

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We are donating $2k worth of advertising to the Open Source pledge

#news #meta #opensource #hacktoberfest

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Vivesh

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Docker and Kubernetes: The Backbone of Modern Application Development Part 3 (Docker and Kubernetes Complement Each Other)

#docker #kubernetes #opensource #cloudnative

3 min read

Oct 17 '24

Random Recipe Generator with Tolgee

#hacktoberfest #nextjs #webdev #opensource

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Carrie

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The Book Nook: A Website Security Crisis

#cybersecurity #beginners #opensource #sqlserver

3 min read

Oct 18 '24

Proud Participant of Hacktoberfest 2024! 🎉

#hacktoberfest24 #opensource #github #hacktoberfest

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Top 5 Open Source Tools Platform, SRE, and DevOps need in 2024

#devops #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

NAGENDRA DHARMIREDDI

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Guide to VisualGestures.js: Revolutionizing Web Interaction with Hand Gestures

#javascript #tensorflow #opensource #webdev

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Oct 18 '24

My Journey with Hacktoberfest 2024

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Nicolás Omar González Passerino

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#1 How I started building the idea 📒

#showdev #react #typescript #opensource

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#pixtral12b #mistralai #ai #opensource

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Jesse Williams for Jozu

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10 MLOps Tools That Comply With the EU AI Act

#ai #opensource #security #datascience

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Lulu

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Why You Need This Decade-Old Open-Source WAF for Ultimate Web Protection

#opensource #webdev #docker #cybersecurity

2 min read

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