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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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Ashish Kumar Verma

Dec 15 '24

How to Get More Software Engineer Interviews by Building in Public

#programming #webdev #github #opensource

2 min read

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Dhaneesh Pillai

Jan 18 '25

Discover `react-fox-toast`: A Powerful Yet Lightweight React/Next.js Toast Library with Interactive Features

#react #opensource #ui #webdev

3 min read

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Baptiste Parmantier for Mineral Foundation

Jan 18 '25

Data structure in Mineral

#dart #discord #opensource

5 min read

Phyllis

Jan 14 '25

Join the Resolution Revolution Challenge!

#devchallenge #nocode #opensource

2 min read

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Akash Soni

Dec 15 '24

Meet Your New Productivity Partner: NoteBook-App

#showdev #productivity #opensource #development

2 min read

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Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 17 '25

i dropped blazingly fast url shortener ever... it's open source

#opensource #webdev #programming #javascript

1 min read

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arjun

Jan 17 '25

Process Synchronization and Scheduling in Operating Systems

#webdev #opensource #architecture #android

3 min read

Victor Trapenok

Jan 17 '25

Cloud SaaS template designed to help startups quickly launch own cloud

#startup #opensource #saas #cloud

1 min read

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Jan 17 '25

7 New Tailwind CSS Tabs - Free & Open-Source

#tailwindcss #opensource #frontend #webdev

2 min read

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Jan 16 '25

Introducing Charla: A Terminal-Based Chat Client for Language Models

#ai #chatclient #opensource #productivity

3 min read

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Jan 17 '25

Introducing Kafbat UI: Simplify Kafka Management with a Modern UI

#apache #kafka #ui #opensource

1 min read

Jan 17 '25

Citty, an elegant CLI builder by Unjs

#opensource #cli #unbuild

3 min read

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Faceplugin

Jan 6 '25

Revolutionizing Workforce Management with Face Recognition Time Attendance Systems

#ai #programming #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Jan 17 '25

Unleashing AI Agent Potential with Tavily Search in KaibanJS

#javascript #rag #ai #opensource

3 min read

Mezjun

Dec 13 '24

Looking for Feedback: Affordable Mini VPS with IPv6 for Testing and Development – What Do You Need?

#devops #docker #opensource #development

2 min read

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