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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.

submission guidelines

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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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 29

Open-source WYSIWYG text editor component built with Tailwind CSS and Flowbite

#tailwindcss #opensource #webdev #flowbite

6 min read

Sep 29

Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 1.93 released to CPAN

#opensource #perl #release #openssl

1 min read

Sep 29

Using LLaMA Models with Groq: A Beginner's Guide

#ai #python #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Yaser

Sep 29

🎉 The High of Solving a Tough Problem

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

1 min read

NocoBase

Sep 29

Deep Dive: Low Code/No Code Integration Capabilities

#opensource #github #lowcode #development

6 min read

Cristiano Lacerda

Sep 29

Hello Everyone Out There Using LaTeX -

#latex #opensource #devops #markdown

4 min read

NocoBase

Sep 29

5 Best Open-Source No-Code Tools for Project Management

#opensource #github #lowcode

9 min read

Adithya Nangarath

Sep 29

Comparing Open-Source LLMs like Hugging Face Transformers with Closed Platforms

#llm #opensource #gpt3 #spheron

5 min read

Karan Singh Bisht

Sep 28

Hacktoberfest 2024

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

3 min read

Abby Nduta

Sep 28

Debugging DevStack

#opensource #openstack #webdev #cloud

2 min read

Sep 28

Fast-forward and three-way merges

#opensource #python #github #git

1 min read

Sep 28

Data factory for generative video models

#opensource #datascience #llm #tooling

1 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Sep 28

Merge TIME!

#opensource #java #ai

2 min read

Sep 28

Monetizing GitHub Issue resolutions with BountyHub

#showdev #github #opensource #startup

3 min read

TheoForger

Sep 27

A Rusty Three-Way Merge

#opensource #beginners #git #rust

4 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Sep 27

Docwire SDK -C++20 library for advanced data processing

#cpp #etl #data #opensource

3 min read

Sep 27

Dapr in the cloud with Catalyst public beta

#news #microservices #opensource #api

3 min read

Sep 27

Study Buddy

#programming #python #ai #opensource

1 min read

Gliimly

Sep 27

Overview of Gliimly, new web services language (Apache license)

#webdev #beginners #opensource #productivity