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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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Web4

Sep 22 '24

🔥 Breaking News: Linkspreed Drops Web4 Lite Open Source – A Game-Changer for Social Networks?

#community #opensource #linkspreed #web4

4 min read

Oct 22 '24

Hacktoberfest 24' : My First Open Source Contribution

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Trix Cyrus

Oct 26 '24

Introducing Hash-Hammer 🔨: A Multi-Threaded Hash-Cracking Tool

#c #programming #automation #opensource

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Jean-Phi Baconnais

Oct 21 '24

Hacktoberfest 24' : a way to promote OpenSource

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Oct 26 '24

Building the RelaxTemplates Project: A Beginner-Friendly Python Template Engine

#webdev #python #programming #opensource

4 min read

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Oct 24 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 challenge experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Anmol Baranwal for Latitude

Oct 17 '24

17 Projects for Developers to Build AI Features 100x Faster 👩‍💻🔥

#opensource #llm #programming #productivity

22 min read

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NocoBase

Nov 6 '24

5 Best Tools for Building Workflow Automation

#webdev #opensource #github #lowcode

7 min read

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Irena Popova 👩🏻‍💻

Oct 24 '24

How to use JavaScript closures with confidence

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

13 min read

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DivyanshuLohani

Oct 26 '24

My Journey into Open Source: First Contributions and Lessons Learned

#opensource #webdev #formbricks #calcom

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Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 25 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #204

#opensource #aws

23 min read

Vivesh

Oct 26 '24

Terraform: Infrastructure as Code for the Modern DevOps Engineer

#terraform #beginners #infrastructureascode #opensource

4 min read

Cleo Buenaventura

Oct 25 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 - part 3

#opensource #github #hacktoberfest #typescript

2 min read

Thomas van Dongen

Sep 22 '24

Model2Vec: Making Sentence Transformers 500x faster on CPU, and 15x smaller

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #datascience

2 min read

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Sep 25 '24

From Changes to Safe Keeping: Git Stash

#git #beginners #opensource #github

1 min read

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