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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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How to Add Authorization and Protect Your Application With OpenAM and OpenIG Stack

#webdev #security #tutorial #opensource

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yogini16

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Data Guardians: Thanos & Thanos - A Tale of Infinite Storage

#opensource #webdev #cloud #metric

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Anmol Baranwal for Taipy

May 21 '24

25 projects that you can build with Python and AI

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

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Gigi

May 5 '24

Introducing Tapyr: Create and Deploy Enterprise-Ready PyShiny Dashboards with Ease

#datascience #tutorial #python #opensource

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Sudo BLAZE

May 27 '24

Why You Should Self-Host Everything

#selfhosted #docker #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Daniel

May 25 '24

Ann Otter Way To Secure Exchange

#security #webdev #productivity #opensource

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FlowTestAI

Apr 25 '24

Launching FlowTestAI - IDE for API first Workflows, Integrations and Automations

#opensource #openai #openapi #javascript

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Jeferson J Amorim

May 24 '24

Introducing Rocketicons: The Perfect Companion for React and Tailwind CSS Developers

#react #reactnative #tailwindcss #opensource

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 20 '24

Nurturing the Future of Open Source: Maintainers

#opensource #beginners #education

5 min read

Palomino for Logto

May 24 '24

Integrating with WordPress for Authorization

#webdev #wordpress #identity #opensource

4 min read

John McBride for OpenSauced

May 22 '24

Understanding the Lottery Factor

#opensource #github

6 min read

Chandre Van Der Westhuizen

May 23 '24

How to build your Developer Portfolio with MindsDB: The symbiotic relationship between developers and Opensource in 2024.

#developers #opensource #mindsdb #ai

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Palomino for Logto

May 24 '24

Integrating with WordPress

#webdev #wordpress #developer #opensource

3 min read

Lymah

May 24 '24

How StarSearch Makes Open Source Collaboration Smarter

#opensource #starsearch #contribution #ai

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Abdelmjid Saber

May 24 '24

VisionGPT - Analyze your image in seconds with AI

#ai #saas #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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