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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 26

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 43)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

May 26

Visualizing the Impact of Code Changes

#opensource #ci #cli

2 min read

Mustafif

May 26

The Plan of an Opensource Education Platform!

#news #opensource #rust #programming

2 min read

Sam

May 25

One Month Post Product Hunt Launch: An Honest Review of Azimutt.app launch

#opensource #database #elixir #product

7 min read

Krishna Agarwal

May 26

Git and GitHub for Beginners

#git #github #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

May 22

FLaNK Stack Weekly for 22 May 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apachefl #opensource

5 min read

Pachi 🪐 (she/her/ela) for GitHub

May 25

Entenda os tipos de licença open source e saiba qual usar nos seus projetos

#braziliandevs #githubbrasil #opensource #github

5 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 25

Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core Web API

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

2 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

May 25

API Methods in ASP.NET Core Web API

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

2 min read

tatyana

May 25

👀Aim+LlamaIndex: Track intermediate prompts, responses, and context chunks through Aim’s sophisticated UI.

#llm #ai #opensource