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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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Hillary Nyakundi

Sep 7

How to Contribute to Open-Source Projects – A Handbook for Beginners

#beginners #productivity #opensource #programming

1 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 6

Open Source ABCs: Network

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

JonathanMahendran

Sep 6

Introduction to Open Source

#opensource #openai #python

2 min read

Sep 6

Navigating the Dark Corners of the Internet with a Beacon of Hope

#opensource #cybersecurity #internetsafety #security

2 min read

tamadeu

Sep 6

QuickViewJS: A Lightweight JavaScript Template Engine

#quickview #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Sep 5

FLaNK Stack Weekly 5 September 2023

#apacheflink #opensource #apachekafka #apachenifi

4 min read

Sep 5

Five open-source projects to secure access to your applications

#security #opensource #cybersecurity #architecture

5 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Sep 6

Moneyball for engineers

#opensource #100daysofoss

4 min read

Alexander Clemens

Sep 4

Before I Die Code: Week 3 Roundup and Gratitude for Our Open Source Contributors

#beginners #opensource #learning #contributorswanted

3 min read

CrabNebula

Sep 4

Meet the Team: Matthias & Knowledge Transfer

#rust #tauri #opensource #security

7 min read

Edoardo Dusi for SparkFabrik

Sep 4

OSCM: The Open Source Consumption Manifesto

#oscm #security #softwaresupplychain #opensource

5 min read

Sep 4

LFX Mentorship - My Experience

#opensource #docker #devops #cloudnative

6 min read

Sep 6

Swirl: An open-source search engine with LLMs and ChatGPT to provide all the answers you need 🌌

#python #ai #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

Mark Matthew Vergara

Sep 3

Create a Discord Bot using Next JS

#nextjs #opensource #javascript #discord

2 min read

Sep 6

Diving into Open-Source Development

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Ido David for sharkio

Sep 5

Sick of Writing Code Just for Mock Data? Try Sharkio 🚀🦈

#opensource #devtool #api #mock

1 min read

Fernando for IDURAR | Where Ai Build Software

Sep 5

🤩5 open-source libraries you must know🤩 Week 3

#webdev