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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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Dec 17 '24

AI and All Data Weekly for 16 December 2024

#ai #gpt3 #opensource #apachenifi

4 min read

Dec 7 '24

Reflecting on the ORAssistant Project: A Journey of Collaboration and Technical Growth

#ai #opensource #github #rag

2 min read

Chloe Williams for Zilliz

Dec 17 '24

Elasticsearch Was Great, But Vector Databases Are the Future

#vectordatabase #opensource #machinelearning #elasticsearch

6 min read

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Elanat Framework

Dec 17 '24

Similarities of the CodeBehind Framework with the Microsoft WebForms

#csharp #dotnet #microsoft #opensource

4 min read

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Abhiraj Adhikary

Dec 14 '24

UI Card Library

#frontendchallenge #devchallenge #css #opensource

1 min read

Dec 17 '24

EVM Smart Contract Explorer

#news #opensource #nextjs #blockchain

2 min read

Judy

Dec 17 '24

Row to column conversion involving uncertain columns #eg91

#programming #devops #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Carrie

Nov 13 '24

What Your Website Will Face Without an Anti-Bot Solution

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

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Dec 17 '24

Migrating Vector Data from Milvus to TiDB

#database #vectordatabase #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Dec 17 '24

Is it possible to upload a file to a database in Next.js?

#nextjs #opensource #fileupload

3 min read

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Igor Benav

Dec 17 '24

Building a Local AI Task Planner with ClientAI and Ollama

#llm #python #ai #opensource

4 min read

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BekahHW

Dec 10 '24

The Cost of Clinging to Legacy Software: Risks and Realities

#opensource #community

3 min read

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Alex

Dec 16 '24

Build simple and elegant REST APIs with sqlx-paginated for PostgreSQL in Rust

#rust #api #learning #opensource

6 min read

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Ojay

Dec 16 '24

Enforcing Git Branch Naming Standards: Tools and Tips for Developers

#git #github #opensource #developer

2 min read

Ojay

Dec 16 '24

Enforcing Git Branch Naming Standards: Tools and Tips for Developers

#git #github #opensource #developer

2 min read

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