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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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May 1

Building a First Aid Assistant with Lyzr SDK

#ai #opensource #lyzr #firstaid

3 min read

May 1

GitHub Sponsor Rust developer Andrew Gallant (BurntSushi)

#github #opensource #rust

1 min read

Apr 30

GitHub Sponsors: Jon Schlinkert JavaScript developer

#github #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Ayu Adiati for OpenSauced

Apr 30

Building Bridges, Not Walls: The Importance of Documentation in Open Source Projects

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #documentation

5 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Apr 30

What is Mina Protocol

#opensource #beginners #programming #blockchain

3 min read

keploy

Apr 30

How I Simulated A Response From A Third Party App

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

6 min read

Apr 30

Building Job Consultant Bot with Lyzr SDK

#ai #opensource #job #lyzr

2 min read

Steeve

Apr 30

Update Bunny Edge Storage files with NodeJS

#node #api #opensource #programming

4 min read

Edwin Kys

Apr 30

How I got my first Rust job by doing open-source

#discuss #rust #opensource #career

4 min read

Apr 30

new to the dev community

#javascript #react #devops #opensource

1 min read

NocoBase

Apr 29

Major Update! Open-Source No-Code/Low-Code Platform NocoBase v1.0 Officially Released!

#lowcode #nocode #opensource #github

10 min read