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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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Nov 4 '24

Reflecting my hacktoberfest journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Thalles Augusto(ThesllaDev)

Nov 4 '24

My Hacktoberfest Journey: From First Pull Request to the Hall of Fame

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

9 min read

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Oct 30 '24

My First Step 👣 into the World of Open-Source 👨‍💻

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Mr Chike

Nov 4 '24

Build, Innovate & Collaborate: Setting Up TensorFlow for Open Source Contribution! 🚀✨

#tensorflow #python #opensource #machinelearning

9 min read

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Mark Seif

Oct 31 '24

I didn't know it was this exciting !

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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William Miller Jr

Nov 4 '24

My First Hacktoberfest as a Repo Maintainer: A Journey of Growth and Learning

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Josef Doctorovitz

Nov 3 '24

How AI-Powered Product Recommendations Are Revolutionizing Online Shopping

#ai #webdev #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Nov 3 '24

Testing & Mocking With Jest!

#testing #opensource #typescript #openai

3 min read

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Jeffrey Ip

Oct 29 '24

🚨💥 Top 5 Trending Open-source LLM Tools & Frameworks You Must Know About ✨🚀

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

5 min read

Daniel Davis for TrustGraph

Nov 1 '24

Are LLMs Still Lost in the Middle?

#ai #rag #llm #opensource

1 min read

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Ash Ro

Oct 30 '24

Writer/Editor-turned-Coder Does Hacktoberfest 2024, Realizes She’d Been Writing in the Wrong Industry All Along

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Akash Babu Kushwah

Oct 30 '24

My Hacktoberfest Journey: Building App Templates with Webcrums AI Tool

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Akindele Emmanuel

Nov 3 '24

Understanding JavaScript closures: variables, functions, and scope.

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

5 min read

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𝒮ubin

Nov 3 '24

First Steps into Open Source: Hacktoberfest 2024 Reflection

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

HARISH K

Nov 3 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey: From First Pull Request to Open Source Growth

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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