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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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christian birego

Apr 14 '24

Les défis et les solutions pour maintenir la motivation en contribuant à des projets open source

#opensource #wiki #webdev #beginners

2 min read

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Rerun

Apr 26 '24

How to Visualize ARKit's 3D Indoor Scenes in Rerun

#opensource #rust #ios #tutorial

3 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Apr 11 '24

What I learned from 29 Days of OSS Alternatives

#opensource

3 min read

Mar 15 '24

How to connect Ipython with own frontend?

#python #ipython #jupyter #opensource

1 min read

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Ahmet Eren Başak

Mar 12 '24

What’s in a name? Hello POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024

#opensource #postgres #cfp #onlineevent

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Anthropic Claude Function Calling and Tools Integration

#anthropic #java #opensource #openai

2 min read

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Patrice Kalwira

Apr 14 '24

Comprendre l'open source : faire sa contribution

#opensource #community #learning

8 min read

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Kouki Badr

Apr 14 '24

Flutter Elegant Notification

#flutter #dart #package #opensource

2 min read

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Dani Bengl for Renuo AG

Apr 14 '24

2 Simple Configurations to Supercharge your TMUX Setup!

#cli #beginners #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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Apr 25 '24

Search Engine For 200k+ Open Source Icons

#design #search #opensource

2 min read

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Amnish Singh Arora

Apr 14 '24

ChatCraft 2.0 is almost Here!

#opensource #webdev #javascript #react

4 min read

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Ankur Tyagi for AgentCloud

Apr 11 '24

Agent Cloud VS OpenAI

#webdev #opensource #openai #productivity

8 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 1 '24

Maintainer Month: Enhancing Support for Open Source Maintainers

#opensource #maintainermonth

5 min read

Katie Liu

Apr 13 '24

ChatCraft week 13: Fixing bugs

#chatcraft #typescript #opensource #chatgpt

5 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Apr 13 '24

ChatCraft Adventures #13, UI Changes

#beginners #opensource

4 min read

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