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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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OpenSource

Nov 15 '23

Why do we do open source?

#opensource #community #motivation #productivity

2 min read

Nov 14 '23

How I spent my summer vacation: making Rails 15 times faster

#webdev #ruby #rails #opensource

3 min read

Jeffrey Ip for Confident AI

Nov 24 '23

Why OpenAI Assistants is a Big Win for LLM Evaluation

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #learning

5 min read

Nov 6 '23

🕵️ 6 Top-Secret Open-Source Projects You Didn't Know About 🤔

#opensource #webdev #programming #productivity

5 min read

Rajiv Lochan Dash

Nov 14 '23

The Frontend Developer's VS Code Toolkit 🧰

#webdev #devops #frontend #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 13 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #179

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Francois Zaninotto for React-admin

Nov 14 '23

Anatomy Of A Profitable Open-Source Project

#opensource #react #reactadmin #techinsights

5 min read

Oct 28 '23

Top 5 Github repositories to achieve system design mastery

#systemdesign #opensource #devops #webdev

3 min read

Klesta

Nov 13 '23

Volunteering as a Developer: Win-Win for You and the Tech Community

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #webdev #learning

5 min read

Jeeva Ramanathan

Nov 14 '23

First Attempt at Open Source Contribution: Hacktoberfest'23 Journey🚀💻

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest #opensource #hacktoberfest23

4 min read

Bap

Nov 8 '23

🕵️ Looking at the top 5 FREE Alternatives to Postman 🔥

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Raymond

Nov 13 '23

Business Card Generator!

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #developer

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 13 '23

Tailwind CSS RTL support for UI components (Flowbite)

#tailwindcss #flowbite #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Nov 24 '23

Super Easy Database Documentation Tool - "Prisma Markdown"

#opensource #development #database #typescript

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 12 '23

Unboxing Ragna: Getting hands on and making it to work with Amazon Bedrock

#opensource #aws #genai #ai

24 min read

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