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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jan 30 '24

Stop Burning Out Maintainers: An Empathetic Guide for Contributors

#opensource

6 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Feb 10 '24

ChatCraft Adventures #5

#ai #beginners #opensource #openai

5 min read

Katie Liu

Feb 9 '24

ChatCraft week 5: Storing multiple providers

#chatcraft #chatgpt #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Philip Miglinci for Glasskube

Feb 8 '24

Glasskube is now part of the CNCF Landscape

#news #kubernetes #devops #opensource

2 min read

Feb 8 '24

How to stop useless PRs on Open Source!

#opensource #cicd #devops #codenewbie

6 min read

Feranmi Okafor for SurrealDB

Jan 10 '24

Introducing Nightly and Beta Rust Crates

#opensource #database #rust #data

2 min read

Feb 9 '24

Limitations of Running AI Agents Locally

#programming #llm #opensource #coding

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 7 '24

Documenso v. Docusign: THE SHOWDOWN

#opensource #saas

3 min read

TThroo-Dev

Jan 10 '24

JSONCrack Codebase Analysis - Part 6 - Lemonsqueezy integration

#javascript #opensource #webdev #react

2 min read

Feranmi Okafor for SurrealDB

Jan 10 '24

Live Queries in Rust

#database #rust #opensource #programming

5 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Feb 8 '24

What is SAML? A practical guide to the authentication protocol

#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

6 min read

Hritam Shrivatava

Feb 8 '24

Git Mastery: A Complete Guide

#webdev #git #github #opensource

3 min read

keploy

Feb 9 '24

Improving Code Quality and Accelerating Development: The Continuous Testing Way

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

3 min read

Marine for Taipy

Feb 5 '24

Getting Started in your Contributing Journey

#github #programming #opensource #codenewbie

3 min read

Mila Wu

Feb 5 '24

🪸6 Text2SQL Tools to Write Stunning SQL for you ☄️

#productivity #opensource #ai #java

3 min read

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