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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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Akash Jana

Oct 27 '24

Bye-bye Passwords: Embracing Secure, Hassle-Free Passkeys

#hacktoberfest #hanko #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Oct 28 '24

My Fourth and Final Contribution to Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #go #redis #opensource

2 min read

Smit

Oct 27 '24

Why Llama AI is Popular

#programming #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

51 Vaishnavi Raykar

Oct 27 '24

Daily Quote App

#hacktoberfest #opensource #githubcopilot

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Sep 23 '24

AIM Weekly for 23 September 2024

#vectordatabase #milvus #opensource #database

5 min read

Qian Li for DBOS, Inc.

Oct 22 '24

How to build a crashproof customer service agent in <80 lines with Swarm 💪🐝

#tutorial #python #opensource #programming

5 min read

Thomas Rooijakkers

Sep 23 '24

Recently Released: Coverage-Guided REST API Fuzzer — WuppieFuzz! 🛠️

#opensource #security #testing #cybersecurity

2 min read

Ludovic DEHON for Kestra

Sep 23 '24

Kestra Secures $8 Million to Simplify and Unify Orchestration for All Engineers

#data #opensource #tooling

5 min read

Oct 27 '24

Building class-glue: A Journey into Modern Package Development

#javascript #react #reactnative #opensource

2 min read

Nikhilesh Mauje

Oct 25 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey as a First-Time Contributor

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Vardhaman Bhandari

Oct 27 '24

My Experience With Modern Open Source CRM: Twenty CRM

#opensource #hacktoberfest #productivity

6 min read

Rajnish

Oct 27 '24

Share files-Photos between Mac and GooglePixel

#github #opensource #android

1 min read

Nov 8 '24

Cryptography concepts that we all developers missed. But we should have known.

#learning #opensource #programming #webdev

6 min read

Oct 27 '24

Managing LLM prompts in DotNet with DotPrompt

#dotnet #promptengineering #genai #opensource

5 min read

zhangmo8

Sep 23 '24

EcoPaste -Open source clipboard management tool for MacOS and Windows platforms

#opensource #paste #tauri

2 min read

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