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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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Sep 26 '24

Behind the Code: Planning Hacktoberfest at Hyperswitch

#hacktoberfest #opensource #hyperswitch #planning

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Sep 26 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 is here! 🎃

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Natalie Fagundo for Inductor

Sep 26 '24

Open sourcing our new Text-to-SQL LLM app starter template

#opensource #sql #ai #database

6 min read

Sep 26 '24

GitHub profile README

#github #opensource #productivity #learning

1 min read

Ben Greenberg for Couchbase

Sep 23 '24

Hacktoberfest: The Couchbase Quest Awaits—Are You Ready?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #database #couchbase

7 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Sep 25 '24

3 ways to use environment Variables in Rust

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

3 min read

Sep 26 '24

Start Contributing to Open Source: A Beginner's Guide

#opensource #webdev #beginners #learning

3 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Sep 17 '24

Rust fullstack web app! WASM + YEW + ROCKET

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

20 min read

Antonio for Litlyx

Sep 26 '24

Litlyx - Introducing Funnel Events

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Job Ready Programmer

Sep 26 '24

Will you be working from home FOREVER?

#productivity #opensource #career #learning

6 min read

Sep 6 '24

Terminal-Integrated Coding Assistant

#opensource #openai #cli

1 min read

DASWU

Aug 23 '24

How to Check If a Database or Object Storage Is Used by JuiceFS

#opensource

6 min read

Sep 25 '24

Building Custom Trees in Umbraco 14 using menus!

#umbraco #opensource #webcomponents #typescript

4 min read

Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Sep 23 '24

7 Open Source Projects You Should Know - Vue Edition ✔️ [BONUS]

#vue #javascript #github #opensource

3 min read

Sep 25 '24

Doing custom sections in Umbraco 14

#opensource #umbraco #typescript #webcomponents

4 min read

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