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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

Jul 21

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 51)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

1 min read

Marc Seitz

Jul 21

Building any open-source projects this weekend?

#discuss #weekend #opensource #beginners

1 min read

rapha

Jul 20

Calling for 100 builders

#opensource #hackathon #ai #web3

1 min read

Romain

Jul 21

Supercharge your application's performance: Consuming Symfony messenger messages with Go

#symfony #go #performance #opensource

2 min read

Jul 21

Why Linux Mint is the best Linux distribution

#linux #opensource

7 min read

Jul 21

Commit with a Past Date and Time in Git

#git #opensource #beginners #programming

1 min read

Jul 19

Top 17 Database Options for Developers in 2023 and How ILLA Cloud Revolutionizes Low-Code Database Integrations

#webdev #opensource #cloud #database

9 min read

Nomadev💻🔱

Jul 21

Top 7 AI Open Source Projects to Contribute to in 2023 ⭐

#opensource #javascript #python #ai

4 min read

Jul 21

Good bye and thanks to "typescript-is" (ancestor of "typia", 20,000x faster validator)

#javascript #programming #typescript #opensource

9 min read

Jul 21

Creating a Game-Changer in Job Search: An Open Source ATS Resume Matcher

#javascript #opensource #python #machinelearning

3 min read

Fernando for IDURAR

Jul 21

The Best Free# Deploying Your React Application: 8 Free Hosting Services to Consider

#react #javascript #opensource #github

10 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Jul 17

FLaNK Stack Weekly for 17 July 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #opensource #apacheflink

2 min read

Jul 21

Design Patterns: Padrões de Projeto no Mundo Real! 🏢💡

#webdev #opensource #programming #learning

5 min read

Jul 20

How to find a suitable topic at GitHub to contribute?

#programming #beginners #github #opensource

3 min read

Jul 20

The State of the Bird

#programming #opensource #community

2 min read

Jul 18

Unmasking Ghost Parameters, or How to Save Time and Money

#opensource #devops #tutorial #productivity

3 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Jul 18

Our Journey In The Open Source World - spyone

#javascript #opensource #github #git

2 min read

toolkituse

Jul 14

toolkit-use npm package have added some functions

#javascript #programming #opensource #typescript

1 min read

Jul 18

Exploring the Power of Google News API via NewsData.io

#programming #api #datascience #opensource

3 min read

Jul 18

Build a Slack Chatbot using MindsDB and OpenAI GPT Model: A Step-by-Step Guide

#opensource #tutorial #ai #developer

7 min read

Julia Heitner for RippleX Developers

Jul 17

XRPL Grants Wave 5 Awardees - Driving Innovation in the XRPL Ecosystem

#xrpl #xrplgrants #blockchain #opensource

4 min read

Jul 17

How to Separate Hot and Cold Data in Storage with Apache Doris

#database #opensource #tutorial