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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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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

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Sloan's Inbox: How to connect with folks over Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #help #community

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Milvus Adventures

#opensource #vectordatabase #rag #ai

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Timonwa Akintokun

Oct 7 '23

Introduction to Hacktoberfest: A Celebration of Open source

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #hacktoberfest23

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eklesiast

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Top 3 Image Optimization Services

#webdev #seo #opensource

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Unlock the Power of AI Writing with Copymatic! 🤖

#webdev #beginners #react #opensource

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DASWU

Oct 7 '23

Costs Cut & Ops Efficiency Boosted: Switching to a Big Data Storage-Compute Decoupled Architecture

#opensource

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alisdairbr for Koyeb

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How to Set Up DocuSeal on Koyeb to Sign and Manage Digital Documents

#opensource #tutorial #webdev #programming

11 min read

Scofield Idehen

Oct 6 '23

Build A Website Blocker App With Python

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

7 min read

Katie Liu

Oct 6 '23

Making and Reviewing PRs!

#opensource #github

3 min read

Jeffrey Ip for Confident AI

Oct 3 '23

The one thing everyone's doing wrong with ChatGPT... 🤫🤔

#beginners #programming #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Oct 6 '23

Hacktoberfest: PR #1

#opensource #hacktoberfest23 #podcast #seunlocked

2 min read

Oct 6 '23

My First Pull Request in Hacktoberfest23

#opensource #python #hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Victor Gerbrands for Medusa

Oct 6 '23

Use AI to create great product descriptions with this free plugin

#opensource #ai #webdev #javascript

3 min read

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Collaborating with Git Remotes: Adding Config File Support

#beginners #programming #opensource #java

2 min read

Tasha for Daily

Oct 6 '23

Automatic short-form video: Highlight reels at scale with AI and VCSRender

#ai #opensource #react #socialmedia

12 min read

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