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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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Vincent for AFFiNE

Oct 17 '24

Best AI Note-Taking Apps in 2024

#opensource #webdev #ai #affine

8 min read

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AnhChienVu

Sep 13 '24

Working in an Open Source Environment: Reviews and Reflections

#opensource #webdev #beginners #programming

2 min read

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Ekansh

Oct 17 '24

A privacy focused online PDF Editor

#pdf #opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

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Oct 17 '24

How to Install Prometheus and Grafana using Docker

#monitoring #opensource #webdev #testing

1 min read

esga1102

Oct 17 '24

Setup OpenSearch,Logstash,Kafka locally with Docker Compose (windows)

#opensource #programming #elasticsearch #logstash

3 min read

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Oct 13 '24

My Contributions for Hacktoberfest 2024 [PART 1]

#hacktoberfest #opensource #devchallenge

3 min read

Jeremy

Oct 17 '24

Transactional Emails: A long term view

#csharp #opensource #programming

7 min read

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Jad Tounsi

Oct 17 '24

🦙💬 Building a Next.js Chatbot with NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron-70B Integration

#nemotron #nvidia #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

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Jimmy Guerrero for Voxel51

Sep 12 '24

Sept 19: Visual AI in Healthcare Virtual Meetup

#devrel #opensource #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

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Oct 16 '24

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#webdev #react #reactnative #opensource

4 min read

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dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Oct 2 '24

Join the 2024 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge: Reflect on your Journey as a Contributor or Maintainer

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Kirill Ageychenko

Sep 12 '24

Harnessing Fusion Energy and Bending Space-Time: The Future of Gigantic Lasers and Gravitational Wave Communication

#beginners #productivity #opensource #learning

3 min read

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Priyank Deep Singh

Oct 15 '24

Launching my project for Designer, Devs and Artist - ColorBrew

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

3 min read

Vivesh

Oct 16 '24

Docker and Kubernetes: The Backbone of Modern Application Development Part 1 (Docker)

#kubernetes #docker #containers #opensource

2 min read

V

Oct 12 '24

Make Your First Open-Source Impact with Responsively On HacktoberFest

#hacktoberfest #devchallenge #opensource

2 min read

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