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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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Abdullah Al Mamun Fahim

Dec 7

Release 0.4 Release

#rails #github #opensource

2 min read

Elias

Dec 7

Generate SSH Keys Effortlessly with generate-ssh-key

#javascript #git #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Dec 7

Celebrating Open Source in 2024: Top Projects and Milestones

#opensource #programming #coding #kubernetes

3 min read

Dec 6

Open source Hugo Theme for building SaaS websites: Saasify

#hugo #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dec 7

Reflecting on the ORAssistant Project: A Journey of Collaboration and Technical Growth

#ai #opensource #github #rag

2 min read

Henrique Sagara

Dec 6

Open-Source Collaboration Progress

#opensource #slackbolt #slack #python

3 min read

Dec 7

Don't fall in love without your code

#architecture #webdev #programming #opensource

5 min read

arinak1017

Dec 6

The Open Source Finale: Pt.1

#opensource

3 min read

Olabode Lawal-Shittabey

Dec 6

Building jargons.dev [#7]: The Word Editor Script

#javascript #buildinpublic #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Rotimi Best | ClassroomIO

Dec 6

I built a Fullstack Deno 2 application

#deno #svelte #honojs #opensource

1 min read

KateMLady

Dec 7

An easy way to communicate

#productivity #opensource #cloud #html

2 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Dec 5

DocWire - 2024.12.04 release

#news #cpp #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Judy

Dec 6

SQL: Query the records closest to the specified time each day #eg86

#programming #beginners #opensource #community

1 min read

Wolfgang Rathgeb

Dec 5

How to use generics in pipe-and-combine

#typescript #webdev #opensource #programming

3 min read

Dec 5

Unveiling Q3: The Quantum-Classical Kernel That Bridges Computing Frontiers

#opensource #python #quantum

1 min read

Ashwin Gopalsamy

Dec 6

A Tiny, Dependency-Free UUID Checker for Go!

#go #uuid #opensource

2 min read

Dec 5

The Final Stretch of My Open Source Journey: Part 3

#opensource #webdev #typescript #ai

2 min read

Wantu

Dec 5

PicQuote

#webdev #socialmedia #opensource

1 min read

AdvDebug

Dec 5

AntiCrack-DotNet: Advanced Methods to prevent cracking.

#opensource #security #csharp #winapi

2 min read

Dec 6

React v19 is out!

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

3 min read

Umesh Tharuka Malaviarachchi

Dec 5

Advanced Entity Extraction with Azure OpenAI: Harnessing Structured Outputs

#webdev #programming #devops #opensource

3 min read

Dec 5

Exploring AWS Management & Governance Services for Modern Cloud Operations

#discuss #aws #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

Dec 6

Master Real-Time Communication with Socket.IO + Sparrow

#showdev #ai #github #opensource

2 min read

Dec 4

Enhancing Application Security: Implementing Authorization with OpenFGA

#openfga #opensource #api

5 min read