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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

May 10 '24

What do you want to know about tech & open source? AMA

#discuss #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Ayu Adiati for OpenSauced

May 9 '24

Streamline Your Contributions: Mastering Issue Forms and PR Templates

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #tutorial

6 min read

Timothy Olanrewaju

May 21 '24

How to generate AI images using ChatGPT-3.5 (free)

#howto #ai #opensource #design

3 min read

Jen Wike Huger for OpenProject

May 10 '24

These IT teams love to get technical

#productivity #opensource #learning

1 min read

Luis Villa for Tidelift

Apr 10 '24

Upstream is June 5, 2024

#opensource #event

2 min read

christian birego

Apr 10 '24

Comment installer et faire tourner mediawiki Avec Xampp

#opensource #wiki #php #mysql

4 min read

Gomathi Anandan

May 10 '24

Code of Conduct Toolkit for Open Source Communities

#opensource #dei #community #toolkit

5 min read

DASWU

May 10 '24

Smooth Upgrade: Implementation and Usage

#opensource

5 min read

May 9 '24

Tips from open-source: Generator function in Javascript.

#javascript #nextjs #opensource #react

3 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

May 9 '24

Open Source Essentials: Must-Try Projects and Tools

#opensource #docker #react #kubernetes

3 min read

May 9 '24

Comparing VoIP SIP STUN/TURN servers: Good, Better, Best?

#webdev #javascript #opensource #devops

5 min read

Rerun

May 9 '24

How to Visualize a recording from the NYUD dataset with RGB and Depth channels

#ai #python #beginners #opensource

1 min read

May 9 '24

Errsole: The First Node.js Logger with a Built-In Dashboard

#opensource #node #react #winston

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 6 '24

Maintainer Monday: Community Care

#opensource #community

2 min read

Linda Grey

May 9 '24

What Is RAG In Gen AI, And How It Works?

#beginners #ai #opensource #learning

4 min read

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