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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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ktmouk

Jul 26 '24

9 Tips for Building a Secure Web Application with tRPC, Next.js, Prisma, Turbo, and NextAuth

#nextjs #webdev #javascript #opensource

8 min read

Chidinma Daniels

Jul 6 '24

UNRAVELING THE SECRETS OF THE ICONIC IRIS DATASET

#beginners #datascience #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jul 26 '24

Using a custom backend server with Next.js in a monorepo.

#javascript #typescript #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

Jul 26 '24

Revolutionize IT Inventory Management with Our Advanced Inventory System

#inventory #opensource #aspnet #angular

2 min read

Oluwatobi

Jul 26 '24

Contributing to Open-Source Projects on GitHub: A Step-by-Step Guide to Successfully Adding to Existing Code

#git #github #vscode #opensource

2 min read

Chiemezuo

Jul 26 '24

GSoC Week 8

#opensource #gsoc #googlesummerofcode #wagtail

5 min read

Omotoso Abosede Racheal

Jul 26 '24

Conditional Types in TypeScript.

#beginners #react #opensource #typescript

5 min read

Seal for Seal

Jul 26 '24

Introducing GPUStack: An open-source GPU cluster manager for running LLMs

#news #ai #opensource #genai

7 min read

Lulu

Jul 26 '24

Why SafeLine is better than traditional WAF?

#waf #cybersecurity #firewall #opensource

4 min read

BekahHW

Jul 25 '24

How do you balance showing your understanding of tech with showing you can apply your skills?

#discuss #opensource #career

1 min read

Omotoso Abosede Racheal

Jul 26 '24

Conditional Types in TypeScript.

#beginners #react #opensource #typescript

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jul 25 '24

Building Better Developers

#opensource

6 min read

Jun 26 '24

Let's Connect Devs

#webdev #opensource #ideas #programming

1 min read

Jul 25 '24

New Free Flutter Icon Library (4,000+ Icons from Hugeicons)

#dart #flutter #opensource

3 min read

Nevo David for Gitroom

Jul 22 '24

I 10x’d my Coding Productivity Using this AI Tool: I wish I had known it Earlier 🤯

#javascript #python #opensource #ai

4 min read

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