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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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Jamesb

Dec 31 '23

From Spaced Repetition Systems to Open Recommender Systems

#opensource #machinelearning #ai #openai

12 min read

Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Dec 29 '23

My Mozilla contribution sprint

#opensource #webdev #beginners #devimpact2023

2 min read

Dec 1 '23

Optimizing data flow with the keep-unchanged-values library

#javascript #react #opensource #performance

2 min read

Mr-Kimochu

Dec 29 '23

Navigating the Tech Landscape: My journey with Django, JavaScript, and Unfinished Projects

#javascript #python #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Dec 19 '23

A Year of Self-Hosting: 6 Open-Source Projects That Surprised Me in 2023

#selfhost #opensource #machinelerning

3 min read

Grzegorz Piechnik

Dec 29 '23

Loki: Effective Logging and Log Aggregation with Grafana

#devops #webdev #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Laura Du Ry for Appwrite

Dec 29 '23

Supporting the future of open source

#opensource

5 min read

Nik L. for SuprSend

Dec 29 '23

Bifrost, self-hosted tool to run notifications directly from your data warehouse

#javascript #programming #opensource #go

5 min read

RoderickB

Dec 29 '23

New Preview of Azure DevOps Best Practice analyzer released

#devops #opensource #cloud #security

1 min read

Mark Phelps for Flipt

Dec 28 '23

️👨‍🔧 3 Tiny Fixes You Can Make To Start Contributing to Any Open Source Project 🚀

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

3 min read

DASWU

Dec 29 '23

K8s Data Persistence: Getting Started with JuiceFS CSI Driver

#kubernetes #opensource

11 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Dec 26 '23

👀 Under the Hood at DevHunt 🚀

#marketing #tooling #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Stacy Roll

Dec 27 '23

How to get the keys without pressing enter in rust ⌨️

#rust #beginners #programming #opensource

1 min read

Thomas Bnt for Mr. Robøt

Dec 26 '23

Publishing documentation with Astro Starlight

#astro #webdev #opensource

8 min read

himanshuseth004 for TestMu AI

Dec 28 '23

Selenium MSTest Tutorial: Setup Selenium WebDriver For MSTest Framework In C#

#selenium #beginners #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

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