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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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Roy J. Wignarajah

Feb 24 '24

ChatCraft Adventures #7

#opensource #openai #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Vedran Cindrić for Treblle

Feb 23 '24

How to Build a Perfect API Description

#api #tutorial #opensource #development

9 min read

Vedant Khairnar for Hyperswitch

Feb 19 '24

Unnecessary Git Quiz

#opensource #git #linux #github

5 min read

Schalk Neethling

Feb 23 '24

Mautic - How Open Source Shapes Marketing- Open Source Project Spotlight

#opensource #community #marketing

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 20 '24

What's the Right Newsletter Platform for You? Open Source Spotlight on Ghost

#opensource #productivity #writing

3 min read

Feb 23 '24

Guide to Successful Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Contributor Applications

#gsoc #opensource #programming #mentorship

5 min read

DASWU

Feb 23 '24

How a Distributed File System in Go Cut Memory Usage by 90%

#go #opensource

12 min read

Akriti Upadhyay

Feb 23 '24

Steps to Build RAG Application with Gemma 7B LLM

#webdev #python #ai #opensource

4 min read

Feb 22 '24

Faster Blogging: A Developer's Dream Setup

#go #python #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Feb 21 '24

Prodzilla: From Zero to Prod with Rust and Shuttle

#rust #opensource #programming #monitoring

9 min read

Feb 22 '24

lazy_names gem, lets you type less

#ruby #rails #opensource #gem

1 min read

Dmitriy A. for Globalping

Feb 22 '24

RIPE Atlas and Globalping: Choosing the Right Network Measurement Platform

#networking #linux #webperf #opensource

6 min read

Feb 22 '24

Observability with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger and Rails

#opensource #ruby #rails

3 min read

Feb 22 '24

Ready to #learn and #share

#javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Mar 3 '24

Things I learned while building my Component Library

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

6 min read

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