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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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Bap

May 31 '23

NVIDIA's $200B Overnight Gain: Trending CUDA Repos Revealed! ⚡️

#opensource #nvidia #cuda #github

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Hellen Namulinda

Jun 1 '23

Beginning my Journey into Open Source with Outreachy

#opensource #python #machinelearning #datascience

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Ken Hamric for Kubeshop

Jun 1 '23

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#testing #cloudnative #opensource #sre

7 min read

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Dmitriy A. for Globalping

Jun 1 '23

Globalping Guide: How to Run a Ping Command From Anywhere

#devops #opensource #api #networking

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Nomadev

May 30 '23

Facebook Open-Sources Its Horizon AI Platform

#javascript #opensource #aws #python

3 min read

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Taranjeet Singh

Jun 1 '23

Behind the Scenes: How LangChain calculates OpenAI's pricing?

#python #opensource #openai #ai

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Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Jun 1 '23

URL Rewrite In Asp.net Core Web API

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

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Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Jun 1 '23

URL Rewrite in Asp.net Web Forms

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

2 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Jun 1 '23

URL Rewrite in Asp.net Core MVC

#webdev #programming #aspdotnet #opensource

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Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Jun 1 '23

URL Rewrite in Asp.net MVC

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

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Cait Bixby for Tidelift

Jun 1 '23

Upstream speaker spotlight: Nithya Ruff, head of the open source program office at Amazon

#opensource #maintainers #upstream

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TheGuildBot for The Guild

Jun 1 '23

How Much Are GitHub Stars Worth to You?

#opensource

7 min read

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Geri Máté for dyrector.io

May 31 '23

How to set up open-source Calendly alternative Cal.com in Docker

#opensource #docker

3 min read

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Jun 1 '23

Get CIA certificate by exploring archives. Golang solution for Web Archive data extraction.

#go #opensource #api #tutorial

6 min read

John Rush

May 31 '23

Dreams vs. Reality: Building an Open-Source Project (DevHunt)

#opensource #devtool #buildinpublic

3 min read

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