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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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Tanaka Chindakuda

Sep 6 '24

Help Needed: Deploying Typebot with EasyPanel and Transitioning from ManyChat**

#beginners #productivity #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Urban

Sep 6 '24

What Led Me to Creating OpenHabitTracker and Lessons Learned

#blazor #opensource #productivity #crossplatform

7 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

Oct 10 '24

Almost half of maintainers feel underappreciated and like the work is thankless

#opensource #maintainers #tidelift #survey

5 min read

Sep 6 '24

My Open Source Contributions

#opensource #contrbutions

1 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 5 '24

Release Radar · September 2024: Major updates from the open source community

#github #community #opensource #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Tachi 0x

Oct 9 '24

Build an AI Discord Bot in Rust with Rig: A Step-by-Step Guide

#rust #llm #ai #opensource

22 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Laura de Oliveira

Oct 7 '24

My First Time as a Maintainer at Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Oct 10 '24

React Signature Component for ShadCN/UI

#react #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Ana Maria | @ana.tech.dev for Ana Maria | Tecnologia

Oct 7 '24

Hacktoberfest: contribuindo em projetos open source com a comunidade dev

#hacktoberfest #opensource #braziliandevs

2 min read

Peter Wan

Sep 20 '24

Improving my (P)ersonal (R)ecords 💪 with (p)ull (r)equests 💪

#ai #github #opensource #osd600

5 min read

Jeeva Ramanathan

Oct 9 '24

AI-Powered GitHub Pull Request Tracker for Your Hacktoberfest (and More!)

#hacktoberfest #webdev #opensource #copilotkit

4 min read

Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

Sep 19 '24

OpenVINO's AI Success: Brilliance or Cracks Beneath the Surface?

#webdev #opensource #productivity #coding

6 min read

MuhammadHafijur

Sep 6 '24

Introducing Image Blender: My New Open-Source Project! 🚀

#webdev #javascript #frontend #opensource

2 min read

Yilia for API7

Oct 10 '24

API7 Enterprise v3.2.16: Integrated Secret Providers

#opensource #programming #tutorial #security

3 min read

Chidozie Managwu

Oct 5 '24

Building a Secure Anonymous Feedback System with Django, Twilio, and Pinata

#pinatachallenge #opensource #devchallenge #python

4 min read

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