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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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Vivesh

Oct 18 '24

Docker and Kubernetes: The Backbone of Modern Application Development Part 2 (k8s)

#kubernetes #opensource #microservices #beginners

3 min read

Sep 14 '24

A Journey Through Code Reviews: The Good, The Bad, and The “Wait, What?” Moments

#codereview #opensource #github

4 min read

Oct 16 '24

Hacktoberfest: The Beginning of a New Adventure

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

arinak1017

Sep 14 '24

Doing Code Reviews & Filing Github Issues

#opensource #codereview

4 min read

DASWU

Oct 18 '24

Hugging Face + JuiceFS: Simplifying Model Sharing Across Multiple Users and Nodes

#opensource #ai

5 min read

Dhanush N

Oct 17 '24

Why Everyone Should Contribute to Open Source ( Even If You Can’t Code! )

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

1 min read

Oct 18 '24

First contribution to Open Source - charmbracelet/huh

#go #charmbracelet #huh #opensource

2 min read

Erik

Oct 17 '24

How to Start Contributing to Open Source Software

#opensource

7 min read

Sep 14 '24

My First Open Source Code Review Experience

#osd600 #seneca #opensource

3 min read

Oct 12 '24

6 Best Open-Source AI Chatbot Builders 🔥

#chatgpt #webdev #ai #opensource

3 min read

Sep 13 '24

Infusion docs generation cli tool

#python #cli #github #opensource

6 min read

Timon Vonk

Sep 13 '24

Swiftide 0.12 - Hybrid Search, search filters, parquet loader, and a giant speed bump

#ai #rust #rag #opensource

1 min read

MUHAMMAD USMAN AWAN

Oct 17 '24

Express v5: What You Need to Know About Express v5

#news #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Carrie

Oct 17 '24

Automated Security Operations with Safeline WAF (Part 2)

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #cybersecurity

5 min read

Oct 17 '24

Support HydePHP and Double Your Impact!

#news #opensource #community #php

1 min read

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