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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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Judy

Feb 17

The Simplest Eight Queens Code You’ll Find Online

#code #programming #devops #opensource

3 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Feb 17

Cloud vs Open Source vs Commercial API Gateways: Which One Fits Your Needs?

#cloud #api #opensource #compa

4 min read

Feb 17

Exploring Career Opportunities in Open Source & Data Science

#opensource #webdev #programming #javascript

3 min read

Joodi

Feb 16

Top 13 Most-Starred Open Source Next.js Projects on GitHub ⭐

#opensource #nextjs #javascript #react

3 min read

Feb 17

Father - an NPM package development tool.

#npm #opensource #lobechat #zustandutils

3 min read

Feb 17

Build AI Agents That Speak

#opensource #openai #ai #devops

1 min read

Feb 16

RustyNum Follow-Up: Fresh Insights and Ongoing Development

#rust #python #opensource #datascience

5 min read

Feb 16

Unlocking the Power of Language Models: A Deep Dive into LangChain 🤖💻

#langchain #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Feb 16

Open Source Funding for New Developers: Opportunities and Pathways

#blockchain #opensource #fundingopportunities #newdevelopers

2 min read