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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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Manish

Jan 17

🎙️I built "GitPodcast" to help devs understand 💡any GitHub repo easily

#productivity #opensource #ai #podcast

2 min read

Margaret Julian

Jan 17

We launched an open-source Hydrogen theme on Remix

#opensource #frontend

1 min read

yuj

Jan 17

[open source] A smart text editor running local models completely in browser

#webdev #ai #chatgpt #opensource

1 min read

arjun

Jan 17

Process Synchronization and Scheduling in Operating Systems

#webdev #opensource #architecture #android

3 min read

Victor Trapenok

Jan 17

Cloud SaaS template designed to help startups quickly launch own cloud

#startup #opensource #saas #cloud

1 min read

Christopher C. Johnson

Jan 17

Fluent Assertions 8: Corporate License Update

#dotnet #testing #opensource

4 min read

Jan 17

7 New Tailwind CSS Tabs - Free & Open-Source

#tailwindcss #opensource #frontend #webdev

2 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 17

i dropped blazingly fast url shortener ever... it's open source

#opensource #webdev #programming #javascript

1 min read

Jan 17

Introducing Kafbat UI: Simplify Kafka Management with a Modern UI

#apache #kafka #ui #opensource

1 min read

Jan 17

I've created an open-source interactive game for learning regular expressions a fun way

#regex #webdev #learning #opensource

2 min read

DASWU

Jan 17

Automated Cache Management: JuiceFS Enterprise Edition Introduces Cache Group Operator

#opensource

4 min read

Jan 17

Citty, an elegant CLI builder by Unjs

#opensource #cli #unbuild

3 min read

Okoye Ndidiamaka

Jan 16

Mastering Open Source Project Management: How to Ensure Long-Term Success

#coding #softwaredevelopment #opensource #sharepoint

5 min read