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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.

submission guidelines

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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Cait Bixby for Tidelift

Jun 4 '24

Upstream preview: The value of open source software

#opensource #upstream #cybersecurity #security

3 min read

Chiemezuo

Jul 8 '24

GSoC Week 6

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #wagtail #opensource

4 min read

Saurav

Jun 5 '24

Starting of a new Chapter

#linux #opensource #ubuntu #unix

1 min read

Sunil Kumar Dash

Jul 8 '24

Automate GitHub PR Reviews with LangChain Agents

#ai #python #langchain #opensource

6 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

Jul 8 '24

Take the 2024 open source maintainer survey!

#news #opensource #maintainers #survey

3 min read

Guillermo Ruiz for AWS Español

Jul 31 '24

Boletín AWS Open Source, July Edition

#aws #opensource #ai

7 min read

Someuxyz

Jul 8 '24

Open-Source Website Directory System AigoTools, Deploy Your Website Directory Site with One Click!

#opensource #nextjs #nestjs

2 min read

Atsushi

Jul 8 '24

Developing a GROWI Plug-in (Template Edition)

#opensource #growi #markdown

3 min read

Aadesh Kulkarni

Jun 8 '24

Beginner 101: How to contribute to open source projects ? (Javascript)

#opensource #webdev #javascript #react

1 min read

Jul 8 '24

Apache Doris for log and time series data analysis in NetEase, why not Elasticsearch and InfluxDB?

#datascience #database #dataengineering #opensource

9 min read

Jul 7 '24

Do you want to host an AI server with API keys for free? I built a solution. APIMyLlama V2!

#opensource #node #release #javascript

1 min read

Hariharan

Jul 7 '24

Open Source Software - an Introduction

#opensource #softwarelicense #community

2 min read

Jun 3 '24

Danger: keep order in your PRs

#opensource #cicd #ci

2 min read

Jul 7 '24

OSS Licensing and Legal Issues

#opensource #linux

4 min read

Mangabo Kolawole

Jul 6 '24

10-Minute Guide to Building a Webhook Service with Sendhooks

#go #docker #devops #opensource

10 min read

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