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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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Tachi 0x

Sep 1 '24

Rig: A Rust Library for Building LLM-Powered Applications

#rust #ai #opensource #llm

6 min read

Devs Daddy

Sep 1 '24

Writing a plugin for upscaling rendering under ThreeJS

#javascript #webgl #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Siddharth Singh

Sep 1 '24

Effortless Type-Safe GraphQL SDK Generation with GraphQL SDK Generator

#graphql #typescript #typesafe #opensource

2 min read

Sep 1 '24

FileBrowser Installation Steps from Source Code on Ubuntu 24.04

#filebrowser #go #cloudstorage #opensource

2 min read

Jul 30 '24

Fastest way to improve vocabulary

#discuss #opensource #productivity #learning

2 min read

Aug 26 '24

16 hard truths from the first 6 months of building an open-source devtool startup

#startup #opensource

9 min read

Jul 29 '24

Keeping User-Uploaded Files Malware-Free: What’s Your Approach - Idea Validation

#cybersecurity #devops #opensource #startup

1 min read

Steve Sewell for Builder.io

Aug 30 '24

The Unintended Consequences of Open Sourcing Software

#opensource #webdev #ai #community

7 min read

Aug 31 '24

A Beginner’s Guide to Using Cloud-Nuke: Using Cloud-Nuke for Safe and Controlled Cleanup

#devops #aws #cloud #opensource

4 min read

Gorkem Ercan for Jozu

Aug 29 '24

Why Devs Love Open Source KitOps–Tales from the ML Trenches

#beginners #programming #devops #opensource

4 min read

Syki

Aug 31 '24

Personal Projects: The Value of Building for Yourself

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

4 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Aug 30 '24

Supabase Python

#webdev #python #database #opensource

6 min read

Adam Poniatowski

Jul 29 '24

ZEHD: The Zero Effort Hosting Daemon

#webdev #opensource #go #docker

4 min read

Urban

Aug 31 '24

Introducing OpenHabitTracker: A Free, Open Source, and Privacy-Focused Habit Tracker

#opensource #productivity #privacy #habittracking

2 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

Aug 31 '24

Hoppscotch v2024.8.0: AWS Signature, Workspace Management APIs, and more..

#opensource #api #webdev #typescript

2 min read

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