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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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Madza

Oct 17

24 Open-Source Projects for Developers in 2023 🔥👍

#opensource #github #programming #webdev

7 min read

Olasunkanmi Balogun for Formbricks

Oct 21

📊 How To Display An In-App Survey In Next.js 13 With Supabase And Formbricks 🤝🛠️

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev #frontend

9 min read

Philip How for The DEV Team

Oct 20

DEV Community Contributor Spotlight: @narender2031

#opensource #meta #devcontributors

1 min read

Oct 21

Milvus Adventures

#opensource #vectordatabase #rust #milvus

3 min read

Eszter Vezden for axem

Oct 20

Calling All Python Enthusiasts: Join Us in Contributing to Our Open-Source Project!

#opensource #python #community #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Oct 21

7 Github Repositories to Master React 😎

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Geri Máté 🎬

Oct 19

2 Open-Source Projects Walk Into a Bar - DevHunt Digest #5

#opensource #devhunt #monitoring #typescript

6 min read

Oct 19

Diving Deep into AI with open-appsec: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Growth

#machinelearning #opensource #cybersecurity #webappsecurity

2 min read

Tausif

Oct 18

Meet Fred: The most awesome Redis client for Rust.

#redis #rust #opensource #github

1 min read

MoRoth

Oct 18

New opensource to replace long "Getting Started"s forever

#news #programming #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Ayu Adiati

Oct 20

Hacktoberfest 2023: First Experience as a Maintainer

#hack23maintainer #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Oct 20

OSS: A Guide to Its Benefits and How to Get Started

#beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23

2 min read

Oct 20

Open Source Unleashed: A Guide to Empowering Your Career and Contributions

#opensource #beginners #hacktoberfest #tutorial

3 min read

Oct 16

Introduction to Docker

#opensource #docker #containers #node

6 min read

Oct 17

Q3 2023 update - Notifications

#buildinpublic #opensource #microsaas #rust

4 min read

Siqi Wang

Oct 20

Engineering Practice for Real-time Feature Store in Decision-Making Machine Learning

#datascience #opensource #machinelearning #featurestore

8 min read