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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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Sleeyax

Dec 23 '24

Dynamic string validation using go's text/template package

#go #programming #opensource #validation

1 min read

Cover image for 💡 The Untold History of GitHub Awesome-Lists 🤯

Jan 22

💡 The Untold History of GitHub Awesome-Lists 🤯

#github #programming #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Prathamesh Devadiga

Jan 26

DeepSeek-R1 : internals made easy 🐋

#deeplearning #ai #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

Jan 26

Pulumi Wasm/Rust devlog #5

#devops #rust #opensource #pulumi

2 min read

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Astrodevil

Jan 25

Snowflake vs. Databricks: Building Your Data Stack with Kestra🚀🌩️🧑‍💻

#cloud #opensource #devops #programming

8 min read

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Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 26

Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon

#beginners #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jan 26

Release 0.46.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - getting started on 2025

#githubaction #opensource #release

2 min read

Open Source SPL

Jan 26

Something Could Double the Development Efficiency of Java Programmers

#java #programming #opensource #esproc

6 min read

dilveteam

Jan 25

I’m building a community-driven list of Awesome European Tech 🇪🇺

#webdev #programming #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

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Jan 20

Deepseek R1

#ai #deepseek #opensource

1 min read

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Arindam Majumder

Jan 21

5 Open Source Tools for Backend Developers in 2025

#backend #webdev #opensource #javascript

8 min read

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Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 14

Getting Started with the Open Source AI Hackathon

#hackathon #opensource #ai #tutorial

4 min read

Gabriel A. Micheal

Jan 25

🔥Announcing Auto-I8LN: Simplify Flutter Internationalization & Localization

#flutter #dart #localization #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for Procrastinator's Guide to Glory: Open Source Projects That Turn Wasted Time Into Career Gold ⭐️

fast-d3v

Jan 3

Procrastinator's Guide to Glory: Open Source Projects That Turn Wasted Time Into Career Gold ⭐️

#programming #ai #python #opensource

5 min read

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Brad Micklea for Jozu

Jan 23

What’s Next for the KitOps Project

#news #opensource #programming #ai

4 min read

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Pratham

Jan 25

A Guide to Choosing the Right License on GitHub for Developers and Creators

#github #opensource #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

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Jan 24

Getting Started in the .NET Open Source Community: A Beginner’s Guide

#dotnet #opensource #beginners

4 min read

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Sudhanshu

Jan 24

Open-Source Table Extraction Tool: Extract Structured Data from Documents with OCR and Computer Vision

#huggingface #paddleocr #opensource #documentprocessing

2 min read

TheoForger

Jan 24

Sprint 1 - So Far so Good

#opensource #rust #beginners

4 min read

Awa

Dec 21 '24

Context Dump: Simplifying AI File Preparation

#cli #javascript #ai #opensource

1 min read

Sharif

Dec 21 '24

Revolutionize Your Flutter Apps with These Top Cross-Platform CMS Solutions

#flutter #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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Jasmine Mae for Fermyon

Jan 24

Spin Joins CNCF Sandbox: Strengthening Adoption and Benefits for Organizations and Developers

#kubernetes #spinkube #opensource

3 min read

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Muhammad Aqib Bin Azam

Jan 24

Building a Simple and Efficient Language Translator for Your Projects

#opensource #translation #javascript #webdev

4 min read

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Pizofreude

Jan 24

Notes on Data Engineering Zoomcamp 2025 - Launch Stream

#dataengineering #dezoomcamp #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Open Source SPL

Jan 24

Cross-Database Migratable Reports--SPL Reporting

#database #programming #devops #opensource

10 min read

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