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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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AutoMQ

Aug 5 '24

Introducing AutoMQ: a cloud-native replacement of Apache Kafka

#opensource #productivity #cloud #tooling

10 min read

Zilliz for Zilliz

Jul 23 '24

Model Providers: Open Source vs. Closed-Source

#opensource #openai #beginners #ai

9 min read

Riccardo Gregori

Jul 23 '24

PACX ⁓ WebResource Management Commands - Init

#powerplatform #webresources #github #opensource

3 min read

Syed Muhammad Yaseen

Jul 23 '24

Elevate Your Development Workflow with GitHub PR Templates! 🌟

#opensource #github #productivity #webdev

3 min read

Atsushi

Jun 19 '24

Developing GROWI Plug-ins (Scripting)

#growi #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Goran Cabarkapa

Jul 12 '24

How I Soloed a Hackathon

#opensource #openai #github #javascript

8 min read

Nevo David for Gitroom

Jul 22 '24

I 10x’d my Coding Productivity Using this AI Tool: I wish I had known it Earlier 🤯

#javascript #python #opensource #ai

4 min read

StackOverflowWarrior

Jul 23 '24

Day 9 of 100 Days of Cloud: Building a Paystack-Zoho CRM Pipeline(Part 1)

#tutorial #beginners #zoho #opensource

4 min read

GeroZayas

Jul 23 '24

🗣️ OpenAI Language Learning Assistant UPDATE

#openai #python #opensource #cli

1 min read

Atsushi

Jun 19 '24

Created a plugin to display embedded YouTube URLs in GROWI

#growi #opensource #plugin #typescript

3 min read

Jul 22 '24

Simplify PostgreSQL Deployments with Kubernetes & GitOps (with Crunchy Data Operator)

#kubernetes #postgres #devops #opensource

6 min read

BestCodes

Jul 21 '24

Introducing CodeQuill: Your Free, Local Code Snippet Manager

#opensource #webdev #database #productivity

2 min read

Lulu

Jul 22 '24

Protect Your Web Application: A Tutorial Guide to Using SafeLine WAF

#tutorial #opensource #cybersecurity #friewall

3 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Jul 11 '24

25 Open Source AI Tools to Cut Your Development Time in Half

#beginners #opensource #ai #programming

13 min read

Jul 22 '24

Runtime Log Level Change using Golang & GoFr

#opensource #go #backend #webdev

4 min read

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