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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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Carrie

Nov 5 '24

The Beginner's Guide to Understanding WebSocket

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Emmanuel Olaojo

Sep 2 '24

use-magic-grid: Official React port of the magic-grid library

#react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Arindam Majumder

Sep 16 '24

11 Open Source Python Projects You Should Know in 2024 🧑‍💻🪄

#python #webdev #beginners #opensource

10 min read

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Abdulsalam Sa'ad

Oct 6 '24

How Repeated Configuration Led Me to Build a Node.js CLI

#node #typescript #opensource #cli

3 min read

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Oct 5 '24

Building a RESTful API with Go Fiber: An Express-Inspired Boilerplate

#restapi #go #postgres #opensource

7 min read

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Antonio

Oct 5 '24

I'm Falling in love with Build in Public

#discuss #buildinpublic #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

Sumonta Saha Mridul

Oct 6 '24

How to Contribute to Open Source: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #programming

1 min read

Uday R

Oct 6 '24

First Contribution

#opensource #git #github #osd600

4 min read

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Jesse Williams for Jozu

Oct 4 '24

Top 5 Production-Ready Open Source AI Libraries for Engineering Teams

#beginners #programming #ai #opensource

9 min read

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Sep 1 '24

Monitoring Your FastAPI Application with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve

#opensource #cloudnative #devops

5 min read

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jy95

Oct 5 '24

Looking for Feedback on My Project : jy95.github.io

#javascript #opensource #review #webdev

2 min read

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Sergey Veneckiy

Oct 5 '24

Show DEV: Facad. The ls alternative making terminals cooler than GUIs

#showdev #cli #opensource #productivity

1 min read

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Oct 4 '24

How I built an AI Chatbot in 5 minutes 😎

#webdev #ai #opensource #chatgpt

3 min read

Henrique Sagara

Sep 5 '24

ReadmeGenie Release 0.1

#opensource #ai #openai #python

1 min read

basheer Mohammed

Oct 5 '24

The Power of Open-Source: Reflections on Hacktoberfest 2024

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

Oct 21 '24

Navigating Hacktoberfest: Your Essential Guide to Open Source Contributions (Part 1)

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #wemakedevs

3 min read

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Oct 3 '24

Introducing Hexabot: Your 100% Open-Source Chatbot Solution

#ai #webdev #opensource #rag

2 min read

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Jasmine

Sep 5 '24

Exploring the Intersection of Science and Art in Computer Science

#computerscience #opensource #music #beginners

2 min read

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Hadil Ben Abdallah

Oct 4 '24

✈️ Plane: The Project Management Tool That'll Make You Say "Oh, Ship!" 🚀

#opensource #tooling #management #productivity

3 min read

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Luis Fabrício De Llamas

Oct 5 '24

Instrumentação com OpenTelemetry: Zero-Code, Code-Based ou Bibliotecas Instrumentadas?

#beginners #observability #opentelemetry #opensource

3 min read

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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Oct 1 '24

21 React Projects Too Awesome to Ignore

#react #javascript #opensource #programming

24 min read

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Oct 3 '24

Get ready Bounty Huntersss! Algora 🔥 V/S Opire ❄️

#opensource #bounty #programming #productivity

4 min read

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IAM VAAR

Sep 23 '24

Built a Slack Employee recognition bot with Nextjs (free code link included)

#opensource #webdev #tutorial #react

2 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Oct 5 '24

Continuous Contribution

#opensource #rust

2 min read

Oct 4 '24

A Practical Approach to TOML Files and Remote Branch Management

#opensource #webdev #python #github

3 min read

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