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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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Gittech

Dec 29 '24

🔥 Top 20+ GitHub Repositories You Can’t Afford to Miss (Dec 29, 2024)

#github #beginners #productivity #opensource

10 min read

Dec 18 '24

Tried Phi-4, It didn't Impress

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

2 min read

AG2 Blogger for AG2

Dec 17 '24

Introducing CaptainAgent for Adaptive Team Building

#opensource #gpt #llm #agents

4 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Dec 18 '24

Building a tool that transforms modern websites into authentic 90s-style designs using AI/ML API

#tutorial #ai #opensource #learning

31 min read

Lem Dulfo

Dec 18 '24

2024 Update on DEV.to Monetization: REMOVED

#webmonetization #web #gftwhackathon #opensource

1 min read

Asaf Ben Shabat

Dec 18 '24

AI-Powered PR Review Bot - Looking for Contributors!

#opensource #python #contributorswanted #webdev

1 min read

Nov 14 '24

Building and Comparing Table Data Made Easy with @libs-jd/table-data-kit

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

dev264

Dec 18 '24

Config-file-validator v1.8.0 released!

#showdev #opensource #go #devops

1 min read

Alessandro Salerno

Nov 14 '24

tarman - tar.gz package manager

#programming #productivity #opensource #linux

1 min read

Gianluca

Dec 18 '24

Kubernetes Fleet Resource Orchestration

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

1 min read

Takuu Kaku

Dec 18 '24

How to Use AutoHotkey to Managing Multiple Monitors: A Practical Guide

#tutorial #opensource #github

3 min read

Sospeter Mong'are

Dec 18 '24

Where to Find High-Quality PNG Icons for Your Services

#discuss #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Dec 18 '24

next-runtime-env usage in Documenso source code

#opensource #nextjs #nextruntimeenv #env

3 min read

Dec 6 '24

The Ultimate Tech Stack for Your 2025 Projects

#programming #opensource #software #webdev

4 min read

Oscar

Dec 17 '24

This developer created a 2K star repo from his phone

#opensource #neovim #android #development

1 min read

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