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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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Sep 14

How to Get Selected for GSoC (Google Summer of Code) - My Personal Experience at Accord Project

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #opensource

5 min read

Sep 14

secure-pubsub-bridge: End-to-End RSA Encryption for Google Cloud Pub/Sub

#googlecloud #node #opensource #security

2 min read

Shayan | Full-stack Developer & OSS Builder

Sep 14

I Built LexKit: A Modern, Type-Safe Rich Text Editor for React

#showdev #react #opensource #typescript

3 min read

Sep 14

# 🛠️ Complete Utility App — The Multi-Tool Desktop Madness I Dropped (And Forgot About)

#python #software #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Sep 14

mermaid-isomorphic in mcp-mermaid codebase.

#isomorphic #opensource #mermaid #mcp

2 min read

PXL - Programming eXperience Lab

Sep 14

CipherVault – Lightweight Browser-Based Encryption Tool

#webdev #javascript #security #opensource

1 min read

Sep 14

Kyrage: A TypeScript-First Database Migration Tool for Modern Development

#showdev #typescript #database #opensource

6 min read

Sep 14

Supacrawler: lightweight, and ultra-fast web scraping api

#opensource #webdev #programming #python

2 min read

Sep 14

Referenceable: Generate Unique Laravel Model References the

#laravel #php #opensource

2 min read

Sep 13

🎉 YINI Parser v1.2.0-beta Released

#showdev #node #opensource #typescript

2 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Sep 14

Day 7 of My 90 Days of Python Series

#programming #beginners #opensource #python

1 min read

Nirel Nemirovsky

Sep 14

I Just Released My First Open Source AI Agent Error Remediation Tool

#showdev #tooling #ai #opensource

1 min read

jhansirao botsa

Sep 14

❗Are We Building AI Too Fast — or Just Too Blindly?

#ai #developer #developerethics #opensource

2 min read

King coder

Sep 14

How to Build and Run Open Source AI Models Locally and Integrate Them into Your MERN Stack App

#ai #javascript #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Sep 14

Notable: Polymorphic Notes for Any Laravel Model

#laravel #php #opensource

2 min read

Sep 13

I built FireScope: a Chrome DevTools panel for Firestore (open-source)

#firestore #firebase #chrome #opensource

2 min read

Winston Puckett

Sep 14

Introducing: A Go package to reduce err boilerplate

#showdev #opensource #go #functional

2 min read

Sep 13

Developer Tooling #006

#webdev #opensource #github #productivity

2 min read

monge

Sep 13

🧪 LiteWorkspace: Minimal Context Loading for Faster Spring Tests

#opensource #java #github #tooling

2 min read

cat dog (running_in_the_storm)

Sep 13

Say goodbye to tedious work and use WorkManager to solve the problem of background work

#android #opensource

6 min read

Sep 13

logger.ts in mcp-mermaid codebase.

#logger #mcp #opensource #console

2 min read

Rooney

Sep 13

OpenMRS Journey Week 1 - The Reality Check: What I'm Actually Getting Myself Into

#openmrs #opensource #learning #java

3 min read

AFNAN

Sep 13

First Contributions: My First Pull request to a project.

#opensource #beginners

1 min read

Aubrey D

Sep 13

My First Open Source Code Review Experience

#beginners #learning #opensource

2 min read

Bhupinder Singh

Sep 13

Open Source Made Easy: How Anyone Can Contribute

#opensource #osdc #cloud #beginners

2 min read

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