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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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pmgzo

Mar 16 '24

My first open source contribution for MongoDB

#mongodb #opensource #contribution #bson

1 min read

Piotr Kulpinski

Mar 19 '24

Growing a side-project to 100k Unique Visitors in one week

#opensource #learning #writing #startup

6 min read

Sidharth Mohanty

Mar 16 '24

Sync your fork from the terminal

#javascript #github #opensource #webdev

1 min read

ZAKARIA ELALAOUI

Feb 24 '24

zikojs tips : mapfun

#javascript #math #zikojs #opensource

4 min read

Katie Liu

Mar 16 '24

ChatCraft week 9: Free Model Provider!

#chatgpt #chatcraft #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Lucas Wasilewski

Mar 15 '24

Bootloader 101

#assembly #opensource #softwaredevelopment #braziliandevs

5 min read

Feb 15 '24

Load assembly at runtime with .Net 6*

#webapi #dotnetcore #opensource #assembly

2 min read

Mar 15 '24

Lessons from open-source: Typesafe “getInt” utility function in Next.js source code

#javascript #nextjs #react #opensource

3 min read

Mar 15 '24

Open Source Is Not New

#news #opensource #architecture

4 min read

Vedant Khairnar for Hyperswitch

Mar 15 '24

What is Hyperswitch

#discuss #payments #programming #opensource

2 min read

Mar 15 '24

How to Write a Proposal for GSoC | Tips, Mistakes to Avoid | GSoC 2024 | Complete Guide

#techtalks #opensource #gsoc

1 min read

Schalk Neethling

Mar 14 '24

You're Installing Node.js Wrong. That's OK, Here Is How To Fix It 🙌

#webdev #opensource #node #security

3 min read

Square Db - Enhance your DB with a very fast DB!

Feb 11 '24

Why Rust is the Almighty Language for Building DBMS? 🛠️

#squaredb #opensource #productivity #rust

2 min read

Katie Liu

Feb 23 '24

ChatCraft week 7: New issue, new provider?

#chatcraft #chatgpt #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Mar 4 '24

Navigating the Future of Open Source Security: Insights from Industry Leaders

#cybersecurity #opensource #finance #future

2 min read

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