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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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Feb 14

Open Source Developer Financial Independence: A New Era of Opportunities

#opensource #financialindependence #incomestreams

2 min read

Feb 14

Navigating the Financial Landscape: Open Source Project Financial Tools

#monetizeopensource #opensource #financialmanagement #projectfunding

2 min read

Zhang Wei

Feb 14

Navigating the Complex Terrain of Sustainable Funding for Open Source

#opensource #sustainablefunding #collaboration

2 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Feb 17

notl.ink - open source blazingly fast url shortener ever. Live on ProductHunt.

#programming #opensource #rust #webdev

1 min read

Zhang Wei

Feb 13

Monetizing Open Source: Strategies and Implications

#blockchain #opensource #monetization #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Feb 17

Exploring Career Opportunities in Open Source & Data Science

#opensource #webdev #programming #javascript

3 min read

Feb 17

🎉 Event App Collab – Open-Source Next.js Event Management Platform 🚀

#nextjs #typescript #react #opensource

1 min read

Feb 13

Navigating the Dynamics of Software Project Forking in Open Source

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #forking

2 min read

Feb 13

I built an open-source library to generate specialised machine learning models from natural language

#llm #ai #machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

Feb 26

Turn Your Docs Into a Chatbot with Gurubase

#opensource #ai #rag

2 min read

Feb 13

Monetizing Open Source Projects: A Comprehensive Guide

#blockchain #opensource #monetization #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Feb 13

Financial Transparency in Open Source Projects: A Key to Sustainable Development

#projectfunding #opensource #financialtransparency #accountability

2 min read

Gittech

Feb 25

40+ Must-Have GitHub Repos Every Developer Should Bookmark!

#webdev #javascript #opensource #github

13 min read

Mageshwaran Sekar

Feb 26

What is eBPF? And how Cilium makes use of it?

#kernel #ebpf #cilium #opensource

4 min read

Feb 13

# AgriTrak Pro

#webdev #programming #opensource #startup

3 min read

Feb 26

Best Websites to Find Laravel Templates for Your Projects

#laravel #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Gus

Feb 25

J.U.D.E - Jigsaw Unified Deployment Engine. - WIP

#ai #devops #opensource #cloud

2 min read

Alphonsus

Feb 25

Rapid Prototyping an Insulin Calculator WebApp with AI Tools and Open Food Facts API

#programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

Feb 12

🎓 Learning Buddy – Open-Source Online Tutoring Platform 🚀

#react #firebase #tailwindcss #opensource

1 min read

Feb 25

Project Management for Developers: A Practical Guide to Balancing Code and Collaboration

#webdev #beginners #opensource #programming

3 min read

Artemiy Vereshchinskiy

Feb 16

Introducing RushDB: Zero-Config Instant Database for Modern Apps & AI Era

#database #opensource #webdev #devtools

9 min read

Feb 12

How I Contributed to Kestra: A Beginner’s Perspective

#opensource #frontend #programming #javascript

4 min read

Dmitriy A.

Feb 12

📦 spiderable-middleware update

#webdev #opensource #seo #npm

1 min read

Anupam Chakrawarti

Feb 12

10 of my favorite open-source android apps on F-droid

#opensource #fdroid #android

2 min read

FaiChou

Feb 12

IntraPaste: A Modern Intranet-First Content Sharing Solution with Next.js and MinIO

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #swiftui

2 min read

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