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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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Lord Neic

Sep 26 '23

The Epic Saga of Former and Latter Approaches in Software Engineering: A Comprehensive Discourse

#softwaredevelopment #programming #software #opensource

3 min read

Jeffrey Ip for Confident AI

Oct 25 '23

What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)? 🚀

#ai #tutorial #programming #opensource

6 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Oct 30 '23

Docusaurus Takeaways in Action

#opensource #python #learning #design

6 min read

Sebastian for AWS Heroes

Oct 30 '23

Access Amazon Bedrock with CLI, SDK, API Gateway, and AppSync

#aws #cdk #bedrock #opensource

1 min read

Oct 30 '23

Typos, null pointers, and treacherous TAB: 33 fragments in the GTK library

#cpp #programming #opensource

4 min read

Oct 30 '23

Host a Static website on AWS S3. Configure Amazon CloudFront for content delivery and Route 53 for domain management.

#devops #aws #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Katie Liu

Oct 30 '23

go-go-web: new front matter parsing feature!

#opensource

2 min read

Doğukan Eren for Açıklab

Oct 30 '23

Ubuntu 22.04 Sunucu Üzerinde Liman MYS 2.0 Kurulumu

#linux #opensource #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

Roberto B.

Oct 22 '23

The JavaScript open-source ebook

#hacktoberfest #javascript #books #opensource

2 min read

Oct 30 '23

My 3rd Year Of Hacktober fest Contribution Journey - 2023

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #webdev #javascript

3 min read

Tanushree Aggarwal

Oct 29 '23

Hacktoberfest2023 - completion!

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #hack23contributor

1 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Oct 30 '23

Reading Docusaurus code

#opensource #beginners #javascript #docusaurus

3 min read

Hana Wang

Oct 30 '23

Quickstart with OpenMLDB

#datascience #featurestore #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

Oct 27 '23

My Hacktoberfest 2023 Journey: From Contributor to Maintainer

#hack23contributor #opensource #hacktoberfest23 #hack23maintainer

2 min read

Oct 30 '23

Last PR of Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

4 min read

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