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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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Cover image for Interested in Contributing to Open Source? Here's What You Need to Know

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Feb 23 '24

Interested in Contributing to Open Source? Here's What You Need to Know

#opensource #tutorial #beginners #git

5 min read

Judy

Feb 27 '24

Is SQL a declarative language

#sql #opensource #devops #esproc

5 min read

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Mar 1 '24

TypeLib JS (part 3) - Error debugging and conditional verification

#javascript #opensource #productivity #codequality

3 min read

Mar 1 '24

Volunteering organizations that you know about

#discuss #webdev #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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Ran Cohen

Feb 29 '24

Exploring Pkl: Apple's Fresh Approach to Configuration Languages

#devops #programming #opensource #configuration

2 min read

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Prosper Otemuyiwa for novu

Mar 1 '24

Implementing Internationalization in Apps: How to Translate Notifications

#javascript #programming #opensource #notifications

9 min read

Thiago Massari Guedes

Mar 1 '24

Texted2 released!

#rust #web #blog #opensource

1 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Feb 28 '24

ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or HuggingChat’s Open Source Option

#opensource #ai

5 min read

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Feb 29 '24

Ansible + Nuitka: One-line Installer for Smoother Employee Onboarding

#python #softwaredevelopment #programming #opensource

2 min read

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Sergey Podgorny

Feb 29 '24

Will AI steal software engineering job?

#ai #promptengineering #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Handshake: Next.js boilerplate for OAuth with 200+ APIs

Feb 28 '24

Handshake: Next.js boilerplate for OAuth with 200+ APIs

#nextjs #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Cover image for OpenMLDB v0.8.5 Release: Enhanced Authentication Feature, Comprehensive Security Upgrade

Hana Wang

Feb 29 '24

OpenMLDB v0.8.5 Release: Enhanced Authentication Feature, Comprehensive Security Upgrade

#machinelearning #opensource #apacheiceberg #tooling

2 min read

Cover image for Azure Cloud Exams: A Community-Driven Open Source Project

Eduard Constantin

Feb 28 '24

Azure Cloud Exams: A Community-Driven Open Source Project

#webdev #azure #opensource #learning

1 min read

Cover image for How to quickly setup a continue watching endpoint for your video players

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Video Dev-Team Blog

Feb 28 '24

How to quickly setup a continue watching endpoint for your video players

#cloudcomputing #opensource #opensourcecloud #redis

3 min read

Cover image for Lessons from opensource: Add a defensive type-safe error handler in your catch block

Feb 28 '24

Lessons from opensource: Add a defensive type-safe error handler in your catch block

#webdev #javascript #opensource #node

2 min read

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