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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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Jan 9 '24

🎁 20 Open Source projects you shouldn't miss in 2025

#opensource #javascript #programming #beginners

9 min read

Jan 19 '24

How To Set Up A Mailserver Within A Docker Swarm

#docker #devops #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Chloe Williams for Zilliz

Jan 18 '24

Vector Database 101: Resources and Events to Learn about Vector DBs in 2024

#vectordatabase #beginners #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Mark Phelps for Flipt

Jan 15 '24

️🚀🚀 Top 3 DevOps Trends to Watch Out for in 2024 📈

#opensource #devops #cloud #docker

4 min read

Nik L.

Jan 28 '24

9️⃣ Open Source Projects Every Sr. Dev Should Explore Once🚀 (Open for Contribution) 🤝

#watercooler #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Sabrina for Qdrant

Feb 7 '24

What are Vector Embeddings?

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #vectordatabase

6 min read

Jan 19 '24

Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> Execute the local setup

#webdev #opensource #javascript #nextjs

3 min read

Yacine Si Tayeb

Jan 18 '24

A Rust Framework for Cloud Development: Volo

#rust #programming #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Dessi for Appsmith

Jan 18 '24

Five Free Open-Source Database Managers for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and More

#database #opensource

8 min read

Kirthi Bagrecha Jain

Jan 17 '24

Earn $1000/Month Part-Time with Open Source Bounties 💸 🤑

#github #opensource #beginners #learning

3 min read

Jess Lee

Jan 15 '24

Check out this visual and audio feast created with open source malware 👾

#showdev #opensource

1 min read

AbcSxyZ

Jan 18 '24

Open Source Confusion by Open Source Actors

#opensource #openeducation #openscience #opensourceundefined

2 min read

Jan 18 '24

28+ websites that use astro-font optimization library

#webdev #javascript #html #opensource

2 min read

Dec 16 '23

Enhancing Your Google Calendar with Top 5 Add-ons and Plugins

#videoconferencing #beginners #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Jan 17 '24

Pivoting a million dollar DevTool startup

#startup #software #interview #opensource

3 min read

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