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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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Zakhar Smirnoff

Aug 15

I was tired of Langchain and created my own wrapper

#ai #gpt #python #opensource

6 min read

Aug 15

“Talckatoo: Your Real-Time Multilingual Chat Solution Built with SocketIO, Express.js, and React!” — Part 2

#chatapp #realtime #translate #opensource

8 min read

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

Aug 15

Managing State with the setState Method in React

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Aug 15

Open Source: Strapi v4 - Formula field

#strapi #opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Ferdinand Mütsch

Aug 15

Wakapi - Open-Source Time Tracking for Devs

#showdev #opensource #selfhosted #go

1 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Aug 14

The (Detailed & Creative) Playbook for Getting More GitHub Stars

#showdev #opensource #github #tutorial

16 min read

Alessandro Pischedda

Aug 14

Build a personal project is a good thing

#showdev #opensource #learning #sideprojects

2 min read

Ayu Adiati

Aug 14

How to Communicate Better in Open Source

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #webdev

4 min read

Oluwadamisi Samuel Praise

Aug 14

Mastering Conditional If Statements in Python With a Real World Example (Guessing Game)

#python #datascience #productivity #opensource

4 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 14

What Does an Open Source Triage Team Do?

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie #github

4 min read

Andreas Riedmüller

Aug 11

One Punch Man Workout App + Source Code

#react #opensource #motivation #webdev

2 min read

Aug 14

Why I Made a Pseudo Game Engine with SvelteKit

#svelte #opensource #webdev #buildinpublic

5 min read

Ashutosh Mishra

Aug 14

Where to Find Open Source Projects for Contribution?

#webdev #opensource #programming #beginners

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 14

A look at airflowctl, a tool to help developers manage Apache Airflow projects

#opensource #airflow #aws

8 min read

Syed Nashet Ali

Aug 11

Contributing to AI Shopping Cart - App Template for Java, Azure OpenAI and Azure Spring Apps

#javascript #opensource #openapi #azure

19 min read

Abhishek Pathak

Aug 14

Creating open source project in React js

#opensource #react #scor32k #programming

5 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Aug 14

AWS open source newsletter, #169

#opensource #aws

23 min read

Aug 14

🌟 Unlocking Opportunities: Earning Money as an Open Source Contributor and Empowering Businesses 🌟

#opensource #developers #maintain #support

1 min read

Abhishek Pathak

Aug 13

Caches

#scor32k #internet #linux #opensource

4 min read

Aug 13

Create and Elevate Your GitHub Profile README

#github #opensource #beginners #tutorial

5 min read

Stoyan

Aug 3

Introduction to LLMFlows

#ai #machinelearning #mlops #opensource