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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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Nick Tchayka for NeoHaskell

Aug 5 '24

Understanding Triggers in NeoHaskell: A Gateway to Event-Driven Programming

#programming #opensource #beginners #haskell

3 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

Aug 1 '24

10 Open Source MLOps Projects You Didn’t Know About

#opensource #programming #beginners #devops

7 min read

Cezzaine Zaher for Xata

Aug 5 '24

pgroll update 0.6.0

#news #postgres #database #opensource

7 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Aug 4 '24

3 Common Mistakes Beginners Make When Learning Rust

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

4 min read

Aug 4 '24

Découvrez @codedav/datetime-helper - Simplifiez la gestion des dates et heures en Node.js !

#javascript #node #development #opensource

1 min read

Aug 4 '24

The Linux Audacity

#linux #kernel #programming #opensource

12 min read

Nick Tchayka for NeoHaskell

Aug 4 '24

Introducing NeoHaskell v0.3.0: Triggers, Actions, and Services

#programming #opensource #cli #haskell

2 min read

viky

Aug 4 '24

Elevate Your Developer Experience with LLMText: A Seamless Library for Language Models

#openai #opensource #llm #rag

3 min read

Aug 13 '24

Introducing Dev Encyclopedia: A "Wikipedia", but for developers

#webdev #beginners #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Aug 3 '24

fastapi opensource project

#opensource #python

2 min read

Aug 3 '24

Ideas and Innovation: Coding a Path to the Future

#programming #beginners #devops #opensource

2 min read

Aug 3 '24

How I created my first open-source project.

#go #programming #opensource #cli

1 min read

Aug 15 '24

No-Code REST API for Databases adds Table Joins

#opensource #database #api #sql

4 min read

Chloe Williams for Zilliz

Jul 23 '24

Model Providers: Open Source vs. Closed-Source

#opensource #openai #beginners #ai

9 min read

Leo

Aug 7 '24

Video Production with Streamtasks

#showdev #ai #videoproduction #opensource

6 min read

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