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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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Lilly for Contenda

Jul 11 '23

We're a part of AI Infrastructure Alliance!

#ai #education #opensource

1 min read

Jul 10 '23

Why should employers encourage contribution to Open Source?

#discuss #opensource #programming #career

1 min read

Hannah Aubry for Fastly

Jul 7 '23

It’s been a wild week for the open social web

#fediverse #community #opensource #fastforward

3 min read

Ofer Lis

Jul 10 '23

ChatGPT: how I used it to convert HTTP requests to OpenAPI document

#chatgpt #opensource #ts #programming

2 min read

Riley Sage

Jul 10 '23

What is IIFE in Javascript ? (important interview question)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #interview

1 min read

mfkl

Jul 10 '23

Milestone: 2 million downloads for VideoLAN .NET NuGet packages

#dotnet #multimedia #opensource #vlc

5 min read

silencer.xyz for ILLA Cloud

Jul 10 '23

10 Awesome Self-host Low Code Development Platforms for Enterprise Applications in 2023

#webdev #programming #opensource #lowcode

6 min read

Felix

Jul 9 '23

Why Choose PGSQL as the Database for Resource Storage

#aws #devops #opensource #postgres

3 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Jul 10 '23

Corporate Social Responsibility

#tauri #opensource #culture

3 min read

Jul 9 '23

My 3 year anniversary blogging at Dev.to - A reflection

#womenintech #opensource #devjournal

2 min read

Abhishek

Jul 9 '23

Adding Rotation and Scaling🕹️🌟 to my Game Engine - Part 4

#gamedev #javascript #opensource #programming

4 min read

Kai Katschthaler (they/them) for Scaleway

Jun 19 '23

🧊 Cool things for a hot open-source summer! (Scaleway Community Newsletter, June 2023)

#news #community #opensource

5 min read

Bap

Jul 7 '23

You found a limitation to a Library? ➡️ Your First Opportunity to Contribute Open Source💡

#github #opensource #codenewbie #git

5 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Jun 5 '23

FLaNK Stack 5-June-2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apachefl #opensource

4 min read

Akash Dev

Jul 9 '23

How to maintain GitHub while learning DSA

#dsa #extensions #github #opensource

2 min read

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