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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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Ankur Tyagi for AgentCloud

May 6 '24

How to Build a RAG Chatbot with Agent Cloud and MongoDB

#webdev #opensource #tutorial #productivity

9 min read

sabarixr

May 7 '24

Navigating the Cosmic Git: A Majestic Journey through Git Exercises

#git #beginners #tutorial #opensource

11 min read

Apr 8 '24

Unlocking the Power of APIs: A Comprehensive Overview

#postmanapi #postman #api #opensource

2 min read

DeadPunnk

May 7 '24

Linux Essentials / Vim

#linux #opensource #learning #certification

1 min read

Vaunt

May 7 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 Preparation Guide

#opensource #devrel #community #developer

3 min read

Devtron for Devtron

May 7 '24

Manage Kubernetes like a Pro with Kubernetes Dashboard by Devtron

#kubernetes #devtron #devops #opensource

5 min read

jlerocher

May 7 '24

Optimize Your Containerized App with SlimToolkit

#docker #opensource #cicd #webdev

2 min read

Apr 4 '24

Automating YouTube Script Writing with Lyzr Automata

#lyzr #openai #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Lee Reilly for GitHub

May 2 '24

Showcase your open source project at top developer conferences in Berlin this summer 🇩🇪

#opensource #github #berlin #germany

2 min read

Hana Wang

Apr 3 '24

Comparative Analysis of Memory Consumption: OpenMLDB vs Redis Test Report

#redis #report #opensource #memory

5 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

May 6 '24

FLaNK-AIM Weekly 06 May 2024

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

6 min read

Sotiris Kourouklis

May 6 '24

Why Developers Have the Best Community Across Every Industry

#opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

Apr 2 '24

Release 1.7 Contributions : ChatCraft.org🤖

#ai #react #opensource #ui

2 min read

May 6 '24

The PHP Orkestra Framework

#news #php #orkestra #opensource

3 min read

May 6 '24

What’s New in Apache Answer 1.3.0?

#showdev #opensource #go #tooling

3 min read

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