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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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Anmol Baranwal for Requestly

Dec 2 '24

The Best Open Source API Mocking Tool for developers (With examples)

#programming #api #beginners #opensource

10 min read

Dec 9 '24

Dynamic form in LobeChat source code.

#ui #opensource #lobechat #antdesign

3 min read

Dec 9 '24

🌐 100+ Free APIs for Developers in 2024 🚀

#discuss #api #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Avesh

Dec 8 '24

Practicing Docker Commands with Online Docker Playgrounds part 2

#docker #devops #a11y #opensource

3 min read

Nov 4 '24

Offering Free Help with Software Projects

#help #beginners #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Dec 7 '24

Celebrating Open Source in 2024: Top Projects and Milestones

#opensource #programming #coding #kubernetes

3 min read

TheArchitect123

Nov 4 '24

KmpEssentials Available for All Kotlin Developers

#opensource #kotlin #android #javascript

1 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

Dec 6 '24

React v19 is out!

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

3 min read

Sathnindu Kottage

Dec 8 '24

ChatsAPI — The World’s Fastest AI Agent Framework

#python #ai #programming #opensource

5 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Dec 6 '24

database.build v2: Bring-your-own-LLM

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

12 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Dec 5 '24

Supabase Queues

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Lymah

Dec 8 '24

Week Two of #100DaysOfCode

#100daysofcode #buildinpublic #softwareengineering #opensource

2 min read

Nov 3 '24

Using WAVE as new terminal.

#terminal #opensource #ai

2 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Nov 3 '24

Reflecting on Hacktoberfest 2024

#opensource #git #github #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Elias

Dec 7 '24

Generate SSH Keys Effortlessly with generate-ssh-key

#javascript #git #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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