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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Oct 4 '23

Open Source ABCs: Version Control

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

JackTT

Oct 5 '23

Showing more Article info on Daily.dev

#news #webdev #opensource

2 min read

RoboCoach

Oct 4 '23

Looking inside GPT-Synthesizer and the idea of LLM-based code generation

#ai #openai #opensource #programming

8 min read

Nevo David for Gitroom

Oct 2 '23

How Kubescape reached 2,000 stars in one week

#techtalks #webdev #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Nik L.

Oct 5 '23

AWS Kinesis vs SQS Comparison (2023): Which Is Better Message Broker For My Notification System?

#kinesis #sqs #opensource #devops

5 min read

Savvas Stephanides

Oct 4 '23

5 common terms used in Open Source, explained.

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #git

3 min read

JackTT

Oct 3 '23

[Article as Code] Syncing Articles Between Dev.to and Multiple Blogging Platforms

#go #cicd #devops #opensource

2 min read

Josue Luzardo Gebrim

Oct 4 '23

DuckDB: Discovering High-Performance Embedded Database!

#database #opensource #finops #beginners

1 min read

Jan Larwig

Oct 4 '23

Simplify Kubernetes Development and Testing with Helm-Compose

#kubernetes #helm #devops #opensource

4 min read

Tim

Oct 4 '23

How to add an Open-Source payments plugin to your WooCommerce store

#opensource #woocommerce #wordpress #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Saurav Jain for Amplication

Oct 4 '23

Celebrating Hacktoberfest 2023 with Amplication

#opensource #github #node #hacktoberfest23

3 min read

The Apostrophe Team for Apostrophe

Oct 4 '23

Navigating the Generative AI Downpour

#ai #opensource #openai #webdev

4 min read

Thomas Bnt

Sep 25 '23

Share us your project for Hacktoberfest 2023!

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23

1 min read

Mubashir Hussain

Oct 4 '23

Mastering CSS: 10 Essential Tools Every Web Developer Should Know ⚡⚡🔥🔥

#webdev #beginners #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Oct 4 '23

ESLint playground & meta tag editor - DevHunt Digest #3

#opensource #devhunt #eslint #javascript

5 min read

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