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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.

submission guidelines

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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Bap

Mar 1 '24

Here are the open-source startups YC invested in 2024

#programming #productivity #opensource #learning

5 min read

Rudransh Bhardwaj

Mar 3 '24

Hey Devs , Lets code something usefull....

#opensource #programming #beginners

1 min read

Mar 3 '24

Better UI for Que background jobs adapter

#rails #opensource

1 min read

Mar 2 '24

How to install and run conda on Google Colab

#conda #googlecolab #python #opensource

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 29 '24

OpenSauced: Nurturing Open Source Collaboration and Growth

#opensource #community #development

3 min read

Greptime

Feb 2 '24

Research Paper Sharing - Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #database

8 min read

Zach Goldie for browserless.io

Feb 28 '24

How and why we ripped our Open Source product apart for a full rebuild

#opensource #startup #playwright #backend

7 min read

Krishna Sivapothanathan

Feb 10 '24

Unveiling Cilium and its role to play in CNC.

#cilium #cloudnative #opensource #features

2 min read

zvone187

Feb 29 '24

What I learned in 6 months of working on a CodeGen dev tool GPT Pilot

#discuss #ai #opensource #programming

12 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 25 '24

Open Source AI Glasses: Would you wear them?

#discuss #opensource #ar

3 min read

delv.

Mar 1 '24

📨 Building your Email API with Fastmail for free!

#node #opensource #tutorial #api

3 min read

Mar 1 '24

Quick tutorial: How to add a release GitHub workflow

#devops #githubactions #git #opensource

2 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Feb 23 '24

Interested in Contributing to Open Source? Here's What You Need to Know

#opensource #tutorial #beginners #git

5 min read

Judy

Feb 27 '24

Is SQL a declarative language

#sql #opensource #devops #esproc

5 min read

Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Mar 1 '24

TypeLib JS (part 3) - Error debugging and conditional verification

#javascript #opensource #productivity #codequality

3 min read

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