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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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Jeffrey Ip

Oct 29 '24

🚨💥 Top 5 Trending Open-source LLM Tools & Frameworks You Must Know About ✨🚀

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

5 min read

Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Nov 1 '24

Are LLMs Still Lost in the Middle?

#ai #rag #llm #opensource

1 min read

Ash Ro

Oct 30 '24

Writer/Editor-turned-Coder Does Hacktoberfest 2024, Realizes She’d Been Writing in the Wrong Industry All Along

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Akash Babu Kushwah

Oct 30 '24

My Hacktoberfest Journey: Building App Templates with Webcrums AI Tool

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Akindele Emmanuel

Nov 3 '24

Understanding JavaScript closures: variables, functions, and scope.

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

5 min read

𝒮ubin

Nov 3 '24

First Steps into Open Source: Hacktoberfest 2024 Reflection

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

HARISH K

Nov 3 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey: From First Pull Request to Open Source Growth

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒 for SWIRL

Oct 24 '24

Building a Perplexity-like Open Source AI Search with SWIRL

#ai #rag #opensource #programming

4 min read

Jeanine Duchaney

Oct 29 '24

The difference between merged, accepted, and reviewed in Hacktoberfest 🚦

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

5 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Sep 30 '24

AIM Weekly from 30 September 2024

#milvus #opensource #vectordatabase #ai

4 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Oct 21 '24

13 Projects You Don't Want to Pass Up to Win Cool Hacktoberfest Swag 🎁🎃

#opensource #react #javascript #programming

10 min read

Nov 25 '24

⚡ 🚀 Top 10 Trending GitHub Repositories, Nov 24 2024 🔥

#webdev #opensource #github #beginners

3 min read

Sababa T

Nov 3 '24

Seeking Feedback on My Portfolio!

#portfolio #webdev #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Diptodeep

Nov 3 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: My Experience as a Maintainer

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Ritesh Hiremath

Nov 3 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: My Open Source Journey.

#hacktoberfest #opensource #devchallenge

1 min read

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