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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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Om singh

Mar 19 '24

Open Source Ascendant: The Transformation of Software Development in 2024

#opensource #web #webdev #developer

2 min read

Samuel-Zacharie FAURE

Apr 19 '24

💡What contributing to open-source is, and what it isn't.

#career #opensource #beginners #programming

5 min read

digitalized-snake

Apr 20 '24

How my open source tool got 100 stars in 4 days!

#python #cryptocurrency #cybersecurity #opensource

3 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Apr 19 '24

Supabase Security Advisor & Performance Advisor

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Bap

Apr 19 '24

Your weekly discovery of new open-source tools ⚒️👇

#discuss #opensource #programming #productivity

4 min read

Lorain

Apr 21 '24

How to Visualize and Analyze Data in Open Source Communities

#programming #opensource #graphql #go

8 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Apr 21 '24

Improve Download Speeds with Concurrency

#opensource #javascript #concurrency #nlp

7 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Apr 21 '24

Concluding OSD700

#opensource #reflection #osd700 #osd600

3 min read

Ankur Tyagi for AgentCloud

Apr 17 '24

How to Build a RAG Chat App With Agent Cloud and BigQuery

#webdev #opensource #programming #tutorial

8 min read

Jonathan VUILLEMIN

Apr 20 '24

Yokai - a simple, modular and observable Go framework for backend applications.

#go #opensource #observability #framework

1 min read

Jesse Williams for KitOps

Apr 19 '24

KitOps: The Bridge Between AI/ML Models and DevOps

#ai #devops #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

Apr 20 '24

Super simple validated structs in Elixir

#elixir #programming #opensource #testing

6 min read

Apr 20 '24

GitHub Sponsors - A series on giving an receiving 💰

#discuss #github #opensource

3 min read

Abbas

Apr 20 '24

AI Businesses in 2024 | Profitable AI Business Ideas

#news #beginners #ai #opensource

6 min read

Apr 20 '24

ChatCraft v2.0.0

#opensource #ai #typescript #react

2 min read

Goodness Chukwudi

Apr 20 '24

A step-by-step guide on how to create and publish an npm package

#javascript #node #opensource #npm

5 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Apr 20 '24

ChatCraft Advenures #14: ChakraUI Troubles, My First Revert, and Final Recap

#opensource #webdev #beginners #react

12 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Apr 12 '24

How Telemetry Saved my Open-Source Platform

#showdev #opensource #buildinpublic #kubernetes

5 min read

Katie Liu

Apr 19 '24

ChatCraft week 14: Releasing v2.0!

#chatcraft #opensource #typescript #react

3 min read

Gorkem Ercan for KitOps

Apr 19 '24

Strategies for Tagging ModelKits

#mlops #devops #opensource

3 min read

justinepdevasia

Apr 19 '24

Docker Log Observability: Analyzing Container Logs in HashiCorp Nomad with Vector, Loki, and Grafana

#docker #devops #sre #opensource

8 min read

Mar 21 '24

Introducing Backgroundable - Your Wallpaper Companion! 🌟

#androiddev #compose #opensource #github

1 min read

Hubert Lewandowski

Apr 19 '24

Test it, dang it!

#opensource #unittest #beginners

3 min read

Apr 19 '24

Ansible Vault Secrets Documentation

#ansible #redhat #devops #opensource

3 min read

Paul Love for Measured

Apr 19 '24

Accessible syntax highlighting colour schemes for developers

#a11y #opensource #ui

2 min read

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