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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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Judy

Jan 24 '25

Cross-Database Migratable Reports--SPL Reporting

#database #programming #devops #opensource

10 min read

Imam Ali Mustofa

Jan 23 '25

Seeking Support for Something Useful

#opensource #sponsor #webdev #programming

2 min read

hervé ishimwe for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jan 24 '25

Best Open-Source AI Model: Experimenting With Phi-4 and Ollama in PostgreSQL

#ai #opensource #postgres #testing

8 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 23 '25

Kick Off Stream. Wrapped Up… Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon.

#opensource #ai #hackathon #programming

2 min read

Datamonk

Jan 23 '25

Data Orchestration Tool Analysis: Airflow, Dagster, Flyte

#dataengineering #tooling #python #opensource

7 min read

Abhay

Dec 20 '24

My Experience at Build Bengaluru 2024

#opensource #rag #machinelearning #ai

2 min read

Crypto.Andy (DEV)

Jan 23 '25

The future of open-source monetization: trends and predictions 💥

#opensource #webdev #programming #github

3 min read

Valerii Strilets

Jan 23 '25

🔐 Modern Type-Safe Permissions Management via Permix

#webdev #typescript #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Jan 23 '25

🎉 TailwindCSS v4.0 Starter Kit – Simplify Your Design System Customization 🚀

#tailwindcss #v4 #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Mohammed Abdulatef

Jan 23 '25

🖼️ Building a Dynamic OG Image Generator with Cloudflare Workers: Edge-Powered Social Cards Made Easy

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #javascript

2 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

Jan 23 '25

Optimize API Testing with Hoppscotch CLI and Web based Collection Runners

#api #webdev #testing #opensource

5 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Jan 23 '25

OSD700: Results of Sprint #1

#opensource

2 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Jan 23 '25

OSD700: How LLMs and Messengers Handling Attachments UI

#opensource

6 min read

Hirotaka Miyagi for ROUTE06, Inc.

Jan 22 '25

Generate Beautiful and Interactive ER-Diagrams with Liam ERD

#showdev #database #opensource #liamerd

6 min read

Jan 22 '25

Kapper, a Fresh Look at ORMs for Kotlin and the JVM

#kotlin #database #opensource #design

13 min read

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