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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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Pierre “Bob” Stephan

Jun 21

Clean Up Your WordPress Debug Logs: Introducing the "Cron Error Silence" Plugin

#wordpress #plugin #debugging #opensource

2 min read

Jun 21

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#linux #debian #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 21

Modul Perulangan Dalam Bahasa Earl

#programming #beginners #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Python Trending Weekly

Jun 21

Python Trending Weekly #107: GIL-Free Python Gets Official Approval

#python #ai #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Jun 21

Maintenance releases 0.5X.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#release #githubaction #opensource

2 min read

Aniket Raj

Jun 21

Project KARL - AI

#ai #kotlin #programming #opensource

1 min read

Tasib

Jun 21

Build a Smart Audio Book with Python (Beginner Friendly Project) 🎧📚

#python #audiobook #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Jun 21

Introducing MonomaOS — A Python-Based Command-Line OS Prototype

#python #opensource #cli #os

1 min read

Mohamed Radwan for AWS Community Builders

Jun 21

Enriching Keycloak with LinkedIn VanityName, Headline & Profile Picture via Custom SPI

#keycloak #opensource

3 min read

Beingana Jim Junior

Jun 20

A Guide to contributing to the Conveyor CI Driver Runtime

#opensource #programming #devops #tutorial

7 min read

Jun 20

ArtistAssistApp's June 2025 Update is Here!

#showdev #opensource #pwa #react

5 min read