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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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sahaj khandelwal

Nov 16 '24

Topic Breakdown: Roadmap to learn anything

#ai #opensource #learning #productivity

1 min read

TheoForger

Nov 16 '24

Automated Testing and Dev Containers

#opensource #beginners

3 min read

Nov 15 '24

10 Powerful Frontend Development Tools for Creating Stunning Websites 🔥

#webdev #beginners #frontend #opensource

8 min read

Jonathan Fishner for ChartDB

Oct 29 '24

ChartDB: From Zero to 1.5K GitHub Stars in 3 Days - Here’s How 🚀⭐️

#showdev #opensource #productivity #database

3 min read

TheoForger

Nov 15 '24

A Surprise from Mattermost!

#opensource #beginners #mattermost

1 min read

Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Nov 15 '24

The Future of Agentic Systems Podcast

#ai #aiops #opensource #dataengineering

1 min read

AnhChienVu

Nov 15 '24

Working with GitHub OAuth Authentication

#javascript #opensource #codepen #html

3 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Nov 15 '24

Goliath Dashboard - Shield Module Demo

#opensource #opentofu #terraform #astro

1 min read

Antonio

Nov 15 '24

Litlyx Update! After reaching 760+ stars and 45 paying clients!

#opensource #development #webdev

2 min read

Carrie

Nov 15 '24

What's New in Open Source WAF, SafeLine V7.2.3?

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Nov 13 '24

20 Open Source Tools I Recommend to Build, Share, and Run AI Projects

#beginners #ai #opensource #machinelearning

14 min read

Nov 15 '24

Milvus Adventures November 15, 2024

#opensource #milvus #vectordatabase #nlp

3 min read

Nov 15 '24

Developer Icons: an awesome open-source library for free tech logos

#opensource #react #astro #webdev

3 min read

배성준

Oct 17 '24

Introducing My First Open Source Project: Swaggy-Swagger

#springboot #opensource #react #css

2 min read

Nov 13 '24

⚡ 🚀 Top 10 Trending GitHub Repositories, November, Week 2 2024 🔥

#github #opensource #beginners #webdev

3 min read

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