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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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Afan Khan

Sep 8 '23

How to get started with Open-Source Projects?

#webdev #opensource #beginners #programming

8 min read

Niklas for Rig.dev

Sep 4 '23

We raised a $2.2M pre-seed round for our open-source application platform for Kubernetes

#showdev #opensource #kubernetes #startup

3 min read

Refact AI for Refact AI

Sep 5 '23

Open-source Fine-Tuning on Codebase with Refact

#llm #ai #opensource #selfhost

5 min read

Greptime

Sep 8 '23

GreptimeDB Quickstart Guide - Seamlessly Launch Our Time-Series Database from the Ground Up

#greptime #database #opensource #rust

5 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 6 '23

Open Source ABCs: Network

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Seth Phat

Sep 8 '23

🔋 Laravel Resource Reducer: optimizes your API responses

#php #laravel #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Elanat Framework

Sep 7 '23

Training of components in Elanat core

#beginners #tutorial #csharp #opensource

12 min read

Sep 7 '23

Detecting changes in JavaScript and CSS isn't an easy task, Part 1

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #microsaas

5 min read

Christine Belzie for OpenSauced

Aug 31 '23

How To Make a Delicious Contributing Guide

#opensource #100daysofoss #beginners #codenewbie

4 min read

Renaldi for AWS Community Builders

Sep 7 '23

Leveraging Amazon SageMaker for Image Classification: A Hands-On Guide with CIFAR-10 Dataset

#aws #machinelearning #python #opensource

11 min read

Sep 7 '23

Creating a Pull Request in GitHub

#opensource #git #github

6 min read

Hillary Nyakundi

Sep 7 '23

Navigating Open-Source: A Beginner's Manual

#beginners #productivity #opensource #programming

1 min read

Allison

Sep 7 '23

Once a Maintainer: Marc-André Lafortune

#ruby #rails #opensource

10 min read

tamadeu

Sep 6 '23

QuickViewJS: A Lightweight JavaScript Template Engine

#quickview #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

JonathanMahendran

Sep 6 '23

Introduction to Open Source

#opensource #openai #python

2 min read

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