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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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Feb 22

🚀 My First Open Source Contribution to Apache Doris

#webdev #opensource #apachedoris

2 min read

Fernando Guerra

Feb 22

Open-Source Book Creator with Multi-Agent AI

#ai #opensource #python

1 min read

Alice Lee

Feb 22

Beginner Contributions: This is how I learned to contribute to open source projects on GitHub

#opensource #beginners #tutorial #github

1 min read

Tania Chakraborty for Block Open Source

Feb 21

Let A Team of AI Agents Do It For You

#ai #opensource #github #goose

2 min read

Feb 21

Automated CI/CD pipeline to deploy app on Google cloud using GKE

#development #cloudcomputing #programming #opensource

10 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Feb 21

Goliat update: Evolution and new approach

#webdev #opensource #poc #goliatdashboard

2 min read

Feb 21

Introducing The Next Open Sourced Game Changer - Motion Provider.

#webdev #react #opensource #frontend

3 min read

Feb 21

Arbitrum and Regulatory Challenges: Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Decentralized Finance

#opensource #decentralizedfinance #regulatorychallenges #ethereum

2 min read

Feb 21

10 Open-Source Documentation Frameworks to Check Out

#webdev #documentation #opensource

6 min read

Ssewannonda Keith Edwin

Feb 21

OpenTelemetry in ASP .NET with Aspire

#opensource #api #webdev #csharp

2 min read

Bruh Buh

Feb 21

Discover the Hottest GitHub Projects Revolutionizing Tech Today 🚀🌐

#github #opensource #programming #python

16 min read