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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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jan 2 '24

Kick off Your New Year Goals with #100DaysOfOSS

#opensource #beginners #community #codenewbie

5 min read

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Thomas Bnt

Dec 30 '23

🕺🏼 My life update and the Open Source #DEVImpact2023

#devimpact2023 #opensource #devjournal #writing

4 min read

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Daffa Haj Tsaqif

Jan 4 '24

Ventoy, Live USB multitool for you ISOs Collector

#linux #tutorial #tooling #opensource

4 min read

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Nevo David for Gitroom

Jan 3 '24

The Discord Plan for open-source in 2024

#webdev #productivity #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

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Jan 4 '24

FetchApp: UrlFetchApp with Retries

#gas #googleappsscript #opensource

4 min read

TThroo-Dev

Jan 4 '24

JSONCrack Codebase Analysis — Part 4 — Editor

#webdev #javascript #opensource #nextjs

4 min read

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Robina Mirbahar

Jan 1 '24

My #DEVResolutions2024 🌟

#devresolutions2024 #community #opensource

2 min read

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Matt Butcher for Fermyon

Jan 4 '24

Part 4: Adding Summaries to the Python Bookmarker App

#programming #python #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Jan 4 '24

Practical Strategies for GraphQL API Rate Limiting

#graphql #ratelimiting #programming #opensource

4 min read

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Mark Phelps for Flipt

Jan 2 '24

️🚀🚀 3 Open Source Contribution Ideas for DevOps Engineers💡

#opensource #devops #cloud #docker

4 min read

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adriens

Jan 2 '24

😈 EvilDevOPS chatBOT is here (fork it!) 🤣

#ai #opensource #devops #beginners

8 min read

DASWU

Dec 15 '23

Building an Easy-to-Operate AI Training Platform: Storage Selection and Best Practices

#opensource

9 min read

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Sarath Adhithya

Jan 4 '24

Embark on a Full-Stack Odyssey with Python: A Toolkit for Seamless Development 🧰🐍

#python #fullstack #programming #opensource

3 min read

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AbcSxyZ

Jan 4 '24

Open Source Confusion

#opensource

2 min read

Jan 4 '24

Revolutionizing Translation Management: Lessify Tools for Efficient JSON File Merging

#angular #i18n #firebase #opensource

2 min read

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