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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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Riza Farheen for orkes

Jan 22 '24

Announcing Initial Release of New Conductor OSS Repository

#microservices #orchestration #opensource #distributedsystems

3 min read

Nirant for Qdrant

Feb 19 '24

Sparse Vectors in Qdrant: Pure Vector-based Hybrid Search

#vectordatabase #ai #opensource #database

15 min read

Feb 19 '24

Magic is no longer Open Source

#lowcode #productivity #opensource #ai

2 min read

Ricardo Filipe dos Santos

Feb 20 '24

Boost Your Productivity with ntfy.sh: The Ultimate Notification Tool for Command-Line Users

#productivity #commandline #opensource #notifications

4 min read

Feb 20 '24

Doodle 0.10.0 can host React, supports WebAssembly and much more

#webdev #javascript #opensource #kotlin

1 min read

Feb 20 '24

Simplifying the Milvus Selection Process

#opensource #ai #rag #programming

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Feb 19 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #189

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Emily

Feb 19 '24

My First Year in an AI Startup

#ai #startup #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Eleni Grosdouli

Feb 19 '24

5-Step Approach: ProjectSveltos Event Framework for Kubernetes Deployment with Cilium Gateway API

#kubernetes #opensource #tutorial #eventdriven

8 min read

Feb 19 '24

Quick Guide to Leveraging Read the Docs for Your GitHub Projects

#readthedocs #github #documentation #opensource

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 12 '24

Three open source alternatives to Calendly

#opensource #saas #productivity

4 min read

GuySerfaty

Feb 19 '24

Rich-text editor with react-native: Upload photo

#reactnative #mobile #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Eleni Grosdouli

Feb 19 '24

ArgoCD Deployment on RKE2 with Cilium Gateway API

#kubernetes #opensource #tutorial #argocd

9 min read

Aliki92

Feb 19 '24

Netdata vs Prometheus: Performance Analysis

#devops #sre #opensource #kubernetes

12 min read

Oluwadamisi Samuel Praise

Feb 15 '24

Merge Mastery: Elevating Your Pull Request Game in Open Source Projects

#opensource #git #productivity #programming

8 min read

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