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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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#programming #datascience #database #opensource

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

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Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 47)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #codenewbie

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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jun 26 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #162

#opensource #aws

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Jun 26 '23

Only internally vetted and approved Open Source libraries can be used

#opensource #corporations #libraries

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Rizèl Scarlett

Jun 26 '23

Revolutionize authentication through the 1Password Hackathon

#hackathon #programming #security #opensource

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Mayukha Vadari for RippleX Developers

Jun 26 '23

EVM Sidechain Devnet is Now Available for Testing and Development

#xrpl #opensource #blockchain #web3

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Moazam Ali

Jun 26 '23

DevLog - An intuitive admin dashboard for managing blogs.

#refinehackathon #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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Diving into Machine Learning🤖

#outreachy #opensource #mboalab #machinelearning

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#vue #opensource #webdev

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dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Jun 24 '23

Open-Source Software: Catalyst for Software Revolution?

#discuss #opensource

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Started an OpenSource project

#webdev #beginners #javascript #opensource

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Embedchain: Building LLM-Powered Bots with Ease

#opensource #bots #llm #embedchain

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#javascript #node #react #opensource

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9 Steps To Land A High Paying Remote Flutter Job

#flutter #opensource #programming #coding

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FLaNK Stack Weekly for 22 May 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apachefl #opensource

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