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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 22 '24

Overview of the Wanderlust Project

#opensource #devops #docker #aws

3 min read

Oct 11 '24

10 Fascinating WordPress Facts Every Developer Should Know

#discuss #wordpress #facts #opensource

2 min read

Opemipo Disu for Griptape AI

Oct 9 '24

Griptape: OSS Platform for Building AI Apps

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

9 min read

arinak1017

Sep 6 '24

Starting my Open Source Journey

#opensource #learning

1 min read

NocoBase

Oct 9 '24

CRUD Development Tools: NocoBase vs Refine

#webdev #development #opensource #github

13 min read

Jimmy Guerrero for Voxel51

Sep 6 '24

Sept 12 - Virtual AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision Meetup

#devrel #opensource #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

Sep 6 '24

UNIX and Linux

#linux #opensource #unix

3 min read

Carrie

Oct 10 '24

Understanding Directory Traversal and Preventing It with SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Oct 10 '24

Understanding Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Prevent it with SafeLine WAF

#cybersecurity #cyberattack #xss #opensource

3 min read

Madhurima Rawat

Oct 10 '24

CodeCulture Daily

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

1 min read

Elisa Chen

Sep 6 '24

My First Steps into Open Source

#opensource

2 min read

Tanaka Chindakuda

Sep 6 '24

Help Needed: Deploying Typebot with EasyPanel and Transitioning from ManyChat**

#beginners #productivity #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Urban

Sep 6 '24

What Led Me to Creating OpenHabitTracker and Lessons Learned

#blazor #opensource #productivity #crossplatform

7 min read

Sep 6 '24

My Open Source Contributions

#opensource #contrbutions

1 min read

Chris Grams for Tidelift

Oct 10 '24

Almost half of maintainers feel underappreciated and like the work is thankless

#opensource #maintainers #tidelift #survey

5 min read

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