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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.

submission guidelines

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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Nov 7 '23

A Complete Guide to Getting Started in Open Source

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners

4 min read

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Namatuzio

Nov 18 '23

CI/CD Part 2: GitHub Actions

#testing #opensource #beginners #githubactions

4 min read

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Nov 22 '23

LetsGo - a starter kit for starting startups

#devops #aws #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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Alex for OpenSign

Jul 11 '24

The 50 best open-source alternatives to popular SaaS software

#opensource #saas #webdev #javascript

10 min read

Nov 17 '23

Try to find an open-source Spring Boot project suitable for beginners

#opensource #java #springboot

4 min read

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Vijay Varadarajan

Oct 28 '23

HacktoberFest Open-Source Contributor

#hack23contributor #webdev #opensource #documentation

1 min read

Nov 17 '23

Milvus Adventures Nov 17, 2023

#opensource #openai #programming #ai

2 min read

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Nov 16 '23

Introducing the Laravel Number Utility Class

#news #php #laravel #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 16 '23

Adding Meta’s Llama2 on Amazon Bedrock as an assistant in Ragna

#opensource #aws #genai

4 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Nov 17 '23

Looking for APISIX Experts? Find API7.ai

#programming #opensource #apisix #apimanagement

7 min read

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Renaldi for AWS Community Builders

Nov 16 '23

A Guide to Going PartyRocking and Best Practices with PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground

#ai #aws #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Nov 16 '23

Release 0.35.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - another maintenance release

#release #opensource #githubaction

2 min read

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Nov 10 '23

DEV Community Contributor Spotlight: Christine Belzie

#opensource #meta #devcontributors

2 min read

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fmerian

Nov 15 '23

How Supabase grew from 0 to 50K+ GitHub stars

#startup #opensource #github

4 min read

Nov 16 '23

Add Continuous Integration(CI) for my Java project

#opensource #java #python

2 min read

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