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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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Namatuzio

Oct 31 '23

Contributing to the Community: Hacktoberfest PR #3

#opensource #typescript #hacktoberfest23 #beginners

3 min read

Oct 31 '23

Summary of Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Bryce Seefieldt

Oct 31 '23

Hacktoberfest Progress

#github #opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript

2 min read

Oct 31 '23

Quick overview on “How to write scalable code?”

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Oct 31 '23

Q4 2023 iteration: tracking arbitrary web content, user-specific webhook subdomains, inherited CSP, and more

#news #buildinpublic #opensource #microsaas

4 min read

TechDogs for TechDogs

Oct 31 '23

G7 Leaders Unite To Create Code Of Conduct For AI Businesses

#news #ai #opensource #discuss

1 min read

Alessio

Oct 31 '23

Adala: Reliable Open Source Agent Framework for Data Processing

#ai #opensource #openai #datascience

2 min read

Oct 31 '23

Create your own calculator

#hack23maintainer #beginners #opensource #javascript

2 min read

yogini16

Oct 31 '23

Redis: The Speedy Magic Behind Your Favorite Apps

#redis #opensource #developers #programming

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Oct 30 '23

Learn how to use JavaScript to power UI components based on Tailwind CSS

#javascript #tailwindcss #flowbite #opensource

10 min read

RoboCoach

Oct 30 '23

GPT-Synthesizer release v0.0.4: web-based GUI with Streamlit

#ai #openai #gpt3 #opensource

3 min read

Katie Liu

Oct 30 '23

Exploring the code behind Docusaurus

#opensource #codereading

3 min read

Koke

Oct 30 '23

Mi recorrido en este Hacktoberfest 2023 🎃

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest23 #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Oct 30 '23

My Journey with Hanko: How to Build a Financial App in Record Time

#webdev #opensource #javascript #ai

12 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Oct 26 '23

No backing away when hacking away 🎃🚀

#hacktoberfest #opensource #react #hacktoberfest23

9 min read

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