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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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Tachi 0x

Nov 21

Build a Fast and Lightweight Rust Vector Search App with Rig & LanceDB

#rust #llm #ai #opensource

7 min read

Lucas G. Terracino

Nov 21

Building an open source skill showcase with Deno

#typescript #webdev #opensource #deno

3 min read

AnhChienVu

Nov 21

Exploring ImprovedTube: A Beginner's Journey into Open Source Chrome Extensions

#javascript #opensource #youtube #codenewbie

2 min read

Eddie

Nov 22

Docker Boot - Spring Boot Docker Container Management Made Easy

#java #springboot #docker #opensource

2 min read

Nov 21

A Portfolio Website(Using html,css and basic js)

#webdev #beginners #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Metta Surendhar

Nov 21

Newbie's Guide to Starting with Open Source Contributions

#opensource #beginners #newbie #career

3 min read

Nov 21

ContextCheck: An open-source framework for testing and evaluating LLMs, RAGs, Chatbots

#showdev #github #opensource #llm

1 min read

arinak1017

Nov 21

Contributing to ByteChef

#opensource #java #springboot

9 min read

thinkThroo

Nov 21

@manypkg/get-packages usage in Changesets

#npm #changeset #opensource #thinkmill

2 min read