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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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Antonio

Jun 6 '24

Ask everybody to share experiences on analytics

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #beginners

1 min read

Muhammadh Ahzem

Jun 6 '24

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Jun 5 '24

Release 0.37.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - yet another maintenance release

#githubaction #opensource #release

2 min read

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Jun 5 '24

Shadcn/ui codebase analysis: site-header.tsx explained.

#javascript #nextjs #opensource #shadcnui

4 min read

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Dhanush N

Jun 5 '24

Introducing sudoku-puzzle: Simplify your Sudoku experience with this new NPM Package

#showdev #npm #opensource #codenewbie

2 min read

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Linda Grey

May 7 '24

Why Are Chatbots In Demand, And How Do They Work?

#webdev #beginners #ai #opensource

4 min read

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Sudo BLAZE

Jun 5 '24

Self-hosting: What's the point of homelab?

#selfhosted #docker #opensource #productivity

7 min read

OSINT-TECHNOLOGIES

Jun 5 '24

New domain OSINT tool. Your thoughts and feedback?

#showdev #programming #opensource #security

1 min read

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Abby Nduta

Jun 5 '24

OpenStack Horizon Week 1: Project Navigation and Task 1

#opensource #horizon #openstack #cinder

3 min read

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Antonio

Jun 5 '24

Read me of our Open Source Project | Litlyx

#opensource #javascript #typescript #webdev

3 min read

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alisdairbr for Koyeb

Jun 5 '24

Best LLM Inference Engines and Servers to Deploy LLMs in Production

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

5 min read

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Jen Wike Huger for OpenProject

Jun 5 '24

How to get started with OpenProject on-premises installation

#productivity #software #tooling #opensource

3 min read

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Antardas

May 2 '24

Seeking help Running Express.js Npm package for Exploration

#webdev #javascript #opensource #backend

1 min read

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Riccardo Gregori

Jun 5 '24

PACX ⁓ Data model manipulation

#powerplatform #pacx #dataverse #opensource

4 min read

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Jun 4 '24

Shadcn-ui codebase analysis: How is the hero section built on ui.shadcn.com website?

#javascript #opensource #nextjs #shadcnui

3 min read

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