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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.

submission guidelines

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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Rizèl Scarlett

Oct 30 '24

Beyond LLMs: My Introductory Experience with AI Agents

#ai #opensource #webdev #programming

7 min read

Mahak Kaur for Quash

Nov 7 '24

The Five Levels of AI Automation

#automation #ai #opensource #programming

1 min read

Oct 4 '24

SVGIconViewer 1.3

#opensource #github #delphi #microsoft

1 min read

Nov 7 '24

Backstage

#webdev #react #opensource #node

3 min read

Oct 27 '24

Clean Code: Open Source Linting & Formatting

#cleancode #opensource #typescript #formatting

5 min read

Vaishnavi Sonawane

Nov 7 '24

Choosing the Right Tech Stack for Your Project

#beginners #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Nov 1 '24

My Hacktobefest 2024 Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Oct 4 '24

Working with git remote and TOML files

#opensource #git #github

2 min read

Dec 9 '24

Financial Post Mortem For The Commit Your Code Conference

#webdev #javascript #opensource #career

6 min read

Richard Parayno

Nov 7 '24

Hosting your own PaaS: Open-Source Tools to Help You Exit the Cloud!

#linux #opensource #cloud #beginners

7 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Nov 5 '24

Actix Web - The Rust Framework for Web Development - Hello World

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

3 min read

Abhishek Jaiswal

Nov 7 '24

Handling File Uploads in Node.js with Multer: A Comprehensive Guide

#webdev #javascript #node #opensource

4 min read

Vivesh

Nov 7 '24

An In-Depth Look at Nginx: The Modern Web Server and Its Applications in Web and Application Backend Infrastructure

#nginx #devops #opensource #microservices

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Priyanshu Verma

Nov 6 '24

My journey of open-sourcing 2024

#hacktoberfest #devchallenge #opensource

5 min read

Chirag Aggarwal

Nov 1 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Experience with Cal Buddy, Your Smart Calendar Assistant

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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