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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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Cover image for Beginner’s Guide to Open-Source. Start your Open-Source Journey 🚀

jfmartinz

Aug 10 '24

Beginner’s Guide to Open-Source. Start your Open-Source Journey 🚀

#opensource #beginners #git

5 min read

Gokil

Aug 11 '24

GrilScript Summer of code

#webdev #gssoc #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Aug 6 '24

17 Iconic Projects to Build Up Your Portfolio 💼 🚀🦾

#opensource #webdev #javascript #programming

21 min read

Cover image for 🧙‍♂️19 Open-Source Tools You Should Bookmark Now🔖

Aug 9 '24

🧙‍♂️19 Open-Source Tools You Should Bookmark Now🔖

#opensource #productivity #webdev #programming

9 min read

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Rajni Rethesh for Middleware

Aug 9 '24

Open Source AI: What’s the hype around it? Everything you need to know about it

#opensource #openai #llama

7 min read

Cover image for Why You’re Getting Blamed for Delays (And How Open-Source Dora Metrics Can Help)

Jayant Bhawal for Middleware

Aug 8 '24

Why You’re Getting Blamed for Delays (And How Open-Source Dora Metrics Can Help)

#docker #opensource #softwaredevelopment #career

5 min read

Cover image for Open Source Alchemy: How Open Source Community Contributions Turn Code into Gold

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Aug 9 '24

Open Source Alchemy: How Open Source Community Contributions Turn Code into Gold

#opensource

5 min read

Aug 10 '24

10 Amazing Open-Source Platforms for building AI Agents that haven't heard about (August 2024)

#ai #development #opensource

4 min read

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Aug 9 '24

Supabase uses Valtio for its state management

#opensource #statemanagement #supabase #valtio

3 min read

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Francesco Ciulla

Aug 8 '24

Tutorials are great! But something is missing...

#programming #opensource #books #rust

4 min read

Daniel Rosehill

Aug 9 '24

My GPT & ChatGPT Github Repository Index (08/24)

#chatgpt #promptengineering #gpt40 #opensource

2 min read

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Francesco Ciulla

Jul 31 '24

Getting familiar with Rust's Syntax

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

5 min read

Lulu

Aug 9 '24

Safeguard Your Website with SafeLine

#cybersecurity #devops #waf #opensource

4 min read

Lulu

Aug 9 '24

Simple and Easy-to-Use Web Security Gateway

#security #opensource #cybersecurity #waf

2 min read

Cover image for Vuestic - Vue components and more

Sep 23 '24

Vuestic - Vue components and more

#vue #javascript #opensource #frontend

2 min read

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