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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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Nov 1 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: A Beginner’s Journey into Open Source

#hack23contributor #opensource #hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest

6 min read

raphiki for Technology at Worldline

Nov 4 '23

Open Source AI: Developing a Hugging Face ChatBot from scratch

#chatbot #huggingface #ai #opensource

6 min read

Rafael Magalhaes

Nov 4 '23

My first npm package

#webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

adewaleomosanya

Nov 4 '23

MASTERING MYSQL

#opensource #learning #sql #computerscience

2 min read

Ahmed Shah

Nov 4 '23

🚀 Elevating Code Quality: Embracing Strong Return Types 📦

#webdev #programming #opensource #csharp

1 min read

Tim Gabrikowski

Nov 4 '23

Simple Youtube Downloader in under 50 Javascript lines

#javascript #node #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Rahul Roy

Nov 4 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: A Commitment to Open Source

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource

2 min read

Matt for Sentry

Nov 15 '23

Performance Monitoring for Every Developer: Web Vitals & Function Regression Issues

#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

7 min read

Amar Parab

Nov 4 '23

Hacktoberfest Contributor

#hack23contributor #opensource

1 min read

Yeom suyun

Nov 4 '23

Introduction to eslint-plugin-lube

#webdev #javascript #opensource #eslint

3 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

Nov 3 '23

What is WebCrumbs?

#react #webdev #community #opensource

2 min read

Nov 4 '23

Milvus Adventures Nov 3, 2023

#opensource #openai #tutorial #ai

3 min read

Mandy Meindersma

Nov 3 '23

My third year as a Hacktoberfest Maintainer

#hack23maintainer #webdev #opensource #github

1 min read

Nov 3 '23

How I use "AI" to entertain my cat

#showdev #opensource #ai

5 min read

Nov 2 '23

Create Your Project’s GitHub Readme With 4 Simple Questions

#github #opensource

2 min read

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