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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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Jan 14 '25

OpenSearchCon Europe 2025 - Amsterdam!

#opensource #analytics #opensearch #vectordatabase

1 min read

Daniel Roe

Feb 4 '25

Zero sum games

#profit #opensource

3 min read

Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 4 '25

Why we chose PostgreSQL over building a new database for IoT

#postgres #opensource #database #devops

2 min read

Sébastien Conejo

Feb 3 '25

I built a portfolio in minutes with Bolt and Manifest

#vite #opensource #ai #tutorial

7 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Feb 4 '25

How to Install & Run MiniCPM-o2.6 Multimodal LLM locally

#ai #nlp #opensource #machinelearning

6 min read

Jakub Andrzejewski

Feb 3 '25

Better feedback in Code Reviews with Conventional Comments

#beginners #productivity #career #opensource

3 min read

Loveline Chioma Ezenwafor

Feb 3 '25

My Exploratory Testing on Cars.ng

#testing #performance #opensource #ui

2 min read

BekahHW for Virtual Coffee

Jan 30 '25

Finding Your Voice: Why Speaking Matters in Tech

#opensource #techconference #community

3 min read

Mahmud eyitoba bello

Feb 3 '25

Build Your First Todo App on ICP: A Friendly Guide

#discuss #opensource #web3 #programming

3 min read

Feb 3 '25

Bug fix releases (2.04 and 2.05) for the Perl Distribution Workflow

#opensource #release #perl

2 min read

Feb 3 '25

[Part 1] Build a CLI tool: Setup the tsonfig.json

#nextjs #opensource #shadcn #tsconfig

4 min read

Vivesh

Feb 3 '25

Custom Resource Definitions (CRD)

#kubernetes #cloud #devops #opensource

2 min read

Dipankar Maikap for Storyblok

Feb 3 '25

Announcing Stable Live Preview for Storyblok’s Astro SDK

#astro #livepreview #opensource #integration

2 min read

Feb 3 '25

Should You Ditch REST for gRPC?

#go #backenddevelopment #opensource #microservices

5 min read

Kenta Goto for AWS Heroes

Feb 3 '25

How to Easily Delete Amazon S3 Tables

#aws #s3 #opensource

3 min read

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