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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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Andreas Jobst for Camptocamp Geospatial Solutions

Apr 16 '24

Current trends in PostgreSQL - insights from PGConf.DE 2024

#postgres #postgis #opensource

2 min read

Mar 17 '24

Finding an open source project and contributing to it

#opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 15 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #195

#opensource #aws

19 min read

Gilles Migliori

Apr 15 '24

PowerLite PDO: A Powerful PHP Database Abstraction Layer

#database #php #opensource #github

5 min read

Hana Wang

Mar 13 '24

Mastering Distributed Database Development in 10 Minutes with OpenMLDB Developer Docker Image

#docker #opensource #database #distributedsystems

3 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Taipy

Apr 3 '24

21 AI Tools that are changing the World

#ai #python #opensource #webdev

23 min read

Jared

Apr 15 '24

My First Open Source Contribution

#opensource

6 min read

christian birego

Apr 14 '24

Les défis et les solutions pour maintenir la motivation en contribuant à des projets open source

#opensource #wiki #webdev #beginners

2 min read

Rerun

Apr 26 '24

How to Visualize ARKit's 3D Indoor Scenes in Rerun

#opensource #rust #ios #tutorial

3 min read

Ahmet Eren Başak

Mar 12 '24

What’s in a name? Hello POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024

#opensource #postgres #cfp #onlineevent

1 min read

Mar 15 '24

How to connect Ipython with own frontend?

#python #ipython #jupyter #opensource

1 min read

Chan

Apr 14 '24

🍞Building Toast with React-Toastify and Troubleshooting

#webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Apr 14 '24

Anthropic Claude Function Calling and Tools Integration

#anthropic #java #opensource #openai

2 min read

Patrice Kalwira

Apr 14 '24

Comprendre l'open source : faire sa contribution

#opensource #community #learning

8 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Apr 11 '24

What I learned from 29 Days of OSS Alternatives

#opensource

3 min read

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