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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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Gerard Clos for Latitude

Apr 25 '24

Latitude: The missing analytics layer between your database and your users 🤝🏽

#showdev #opensource

2 min read

Ione Souza Junior

Apr 26 '24

You don't need to be a senior to contribute to open-source projects

#git #opensource

9 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 18 '24

Supabase Storage: now supports the S3 protocol

#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

5 min read

Apr 25 '24

GitHub Sponsors: azu the Japanese TypeScript and JavaScript developer

#github #opensource #javascript #typescript

2 min read

Michael Amachree

Apr 25 '24

Level Up Your Coding Game: Contribution Trackers for Open Source and Personal Growth

#opensource #codinghabits #contributiontracker #devto

2 min read

alisdairbr for Koyeb

Apr 25 '24

How to Deploy Directus as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) on Koyeb

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #api

8 min read

Evotik

Apr 25 '24

Release of Node.js 22 [Live] What is new?!

#javascript #node #opensource

2 min read

J Mac

Apr 25 '24

List of VC funds that invest in Open Source (seed)

#startup #opensource

52 min read

LambdaTest Team for LambdaTest

Apr 25 '24

Clash of the Testing Titans: LambdaTest Spartans Summit 2024 Welcomes You!

#techtalks #programming #opensource #testing

2 min read

Apr 24 '24

GitHub Sponsor Rust developer David Tolnay

#github #opensource #rust

3 min read

Henry John Kupty

Mar 22 '24

Specific vs Generic: A case for less generic software

#java #softwareengineering #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Brad Micklea for KitOps

Apr 22 '24

Why enterprise AI projects are moving too slowly

#devops #ai #opensource #aiops

5 min read

Rerun

May 6 '24

How to Visualize Live-Streaming Frames from Intel RealSense Depth Sensor

#tutorial #python #opensource #rust

2 min read

Apr 24 '24

3 things that matter most for a project management tool

#programming #productivity #opensource #development

2 min read

Apr 23 '24

Open Source Manifesto

#opensource #programming #tutorial

8 min read

Thomas Segura for GitGuardian

Apr 24 '24

The Open-Source Backdoor That Almost Compromised SSH

#security #infosec #opensource #github

3 min read

Devs Daddy

Apr 24 '24

Unity XScaling - A library for Realtime Texture and Rendering Upscaling (Super-Resolution)

#unity3d #opensource #asset #howto

2 min read

Apr 24 '24

Empowering Farmers with Data-Driven Crop Recommendations

#ai #openai #opensource #python

4 min read

Apr 24 '24

Building an University Advisor App with Lyzr SDK

#ai #opensource #university #advice

6 min read

Sebastian Huckleberry

Apr 23 '24

Runme Gist: A Pastebin for Terminals Inside Your Docs

#devops #cloud #programming #opensource

4 min read

Apr 24 '24

Building Idea Generator with Lyzr SDK

#ai #opensource #creativity #lyzr

4 min read

Alexandr Zahatski

Apr 23 '24

Podlite v1.0 released: A lightweight block-oriented markup language for organizing knowledge

#podlite #webdev #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Apr 3 '24

MyScaleDB, the Revolutionary SQL Vector Database, Goes Open-Source

#vectordatabase #sql #opensource #ai

2 min read

spO0q

Apr 20 '24

Security: Why the "XZ backdoor" is worrying

#security #developer #opensource #threat

2 min read

Apr 23 '24

Deploy MongoDB on Kubernetes with ArgoCD and Helm charts

#kubernetes #opensource #database #cloudnative

5 min read

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