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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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Oliver Bennet for GraphPe

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#linux #cli #bash #opensource

3 min read

Jeremy

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#opensource #csharp

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Contributor Experience 2024: Reflections on Hacktoberfest

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

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#opensource #softwaredevelopment #github #coding

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Abdullah Bin Altaf

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My First Time Participating in Hacktoberfest: A Journey into Open Source

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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#webdev #management #opensource #tutorial

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#go #opensource #productivity

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Vivesh

Oct 29 '24

Introduction to Kubernetes: A Beginner's Guide

#kubernetes #opensource #basic #devops

3 min read

Judy

Oct 29 '24

Query a CSV File According to Specified Conditions #eg67

#discuss #programming #devops #opensource

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Piotr

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Django bookmark management software

#python #django #opensource

2 min read

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I Made an Open Source User Interface for OpenAI APIs

#openai #ui #opensource #api

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Duc Nguyen Thanh

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#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

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#opensource #webdev #javascript #productivity

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Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Oct 28 '24

What does LLM Temperature Actually Mean?

#ai #aiops #rag #opensource

4 min read

Jessica Temporal

Oct 23 '24

Reflections from a maintainer and contributor during Hacktoberfest - is open source struggling?

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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