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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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#nlp #llm #rag #opensource

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Olabode Lawal-Shittabey

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#opensource #buildinpublic #javascript #productivity

5 min read

Lulu

Aug 19 '24

Quickly Integrate Free WAF with Nginx

#opensource #docker #cybersecurity #devops

3 min read

Aug 18 '24

iOS Development in VS Code

#ios #vscode #opensource

2 min read

Chiemezuo

Aug 19 '24

GSoC Week 11

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #wagtail #opensource

3 min read

Aug 18 '24

Ollama eBook Summary: A Different Way to Chat with PDF

#llm #books #chatgpt #opensource

4 min read

Jul 29 '24

Java開源開發者指南：構建並部署到Maven Central

#java #opensource

2 min read

Aug 17 '24

Best Open Source Flutter Icon Libraries

#flutter #opensource #dart #mobile

4 min read

Milica Maksimovic for Wasp

Sep 11 '24

The Faces Behind Open Source Projects: Tim Jones and pg-boss

#news #postgres #opensource #webdev

10 min read

Eduard

Aug 17 '24

How to host your own radicle node. Contribute to decentralized source control. 🌌

#linux #git #p2p #opensource

4 min read

Syakir

Aug 22 '24

I Built an Astro Portfolio Blog Theme So You Can Setup Your Personal Website in 10 Minutes 🚀🔥

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Palomino for Logto

Aug 6 '24

From Parcel to Vite: A short story of a 100K LOC migration

#webdev #programming #vite #opensource

9 min read

Aug 17 '24

Self-Hosting Applications on Raspberry Pi 5

#raspberrypi #opensource #selfhosting

6 min read

Shahid

Aug 16 '24

Replace empty images with beautiful GradientPlaceholder

#webdev #react #opensource #node

1 min read

keploy

Jul 18 '24

Continuous Integration Testing: Streamlining Software Development and Ensuring Quality

#testing #ai #opensource #api

5 min read

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