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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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Bryce Seefieldt

Jan 1 '24

Escalating NeoGPT contribution

#python #gpt3 #opensource #yaml

2 min read

Jan 1 '24

🌟 Mastering the Art of Consistency in Tech: My Journey and Strategies 🌟

#cybersecurity #opensource #ai #careerdevelopment

3 min read

Herrington Darkholme

Jan 1 '24

How I build a chatbot for my OSS project, for free, without code!

#opensource #ai #openai #tutorial

5 min read

Francois Zaninotto for React-admin

Jan 10 '24

Documentation: The Key Enabler For Open-Source Success

#opensource #productdevelopment #react

9 min read

Jan 30 '24

Fitter - open-source instrument for amazing scraping.

#programming #webdev #opensource #go

2 min read

Gianluca

Jan 30 '24

A controller to identify unused and unhealthy Kubernetes resources

#showdev #kubernetes #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mark Phelps for Flipt

Jan 29 '24

️️Feature Flags 101: 3 Basic Feature Flag Use Cases You Can Implement Today 🏁

#opensource #devops #cloud #productivity

4 min read

AbcSxyZ

Jan 30 '24

Open source: prescriptive VS descriptive definition

#opensource #openscience #openeducation

2 min read

0xtorchieG

Jan 30 '24

The missing link between L1 and L2 transactions on Optimism

#web3 #decoding #opensource #smartcontract

5 min read

Dilshad 👨‍💻

Jan 30 '24

Level Up Your GitHub Game: Tips & Tricks for 2024 Domination by ShadBalti

#github #githubactions #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Laura Du Ry for Appwrite

Jan 30 '24

We removed cookies, pixels, and tags from the website and console

#opensource #security

8 min read

TThroo-Dev

Jan 9 '24

JSONCrack Codebase Analysis - Part 5 - Toolbar and Bottom bar

#webdev #javascript #opensource #nextjs

6 min read

Daniela Bonvini for SparkFabrik

Jan 25 '24

How (not) to contribute to open source

#opensource #web #development #community

8 min read

Bap

Jan 25 '24

5 open source tools for effective ML Testing

#python #productivity #opensource #machinelearning

6 min read

Leonardo Montini for Claranet

Jan 29 '24

Employee-Driven Sponsorship: Open Source Day 2024

#opensource

2 min read

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