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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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Dec 3 '23

An open-source project by Python for Upwork Freelancers "RSS Feed Fetcher"

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Dec 3 '23

CodiumAI PR-Agent Dominates the Dev World with Versatility and Open-Source Power

#codiumai #opensource #githubcopilot #pullrequest

7 min read

Yousef

Nov 3 '23

Enhancing Your Open-Source Project with Static Analysis Tools

#opensource #csharp #beginners #documentation

3 min read

Paramanantham Harrison

Dec 3 '23

Share inspiring source code and templates for flutter

#discuss #flutter #mobile #opensource

1 min read

Roy J. Wignarajah

Dec 10 '23

Attempting a larger bug fix II - Execution

#opensource #beginners #programming #python

3 min read

Dec 3 '23

Releasing my First Open Source Project

#programming #opensource #python

4 min read

Dec 3 '23

Try a bigger project

#opensource #google #typescript #java

2 min read

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Shrijal Acharya

Dec 11 '23

🎉One must-have tool for anyone in Data field 🤯✨

#productivity #opensource #programming

4 min read

Dec 2 '23

Perl support in Liquidprompt

#liquidprompt #pr #24prs #opensource

3 min read

DASWU

Nov 3 '23

From Hadoop to Cloud: Why and How to Decouple Storage and Compute in Big Data Platforms

#opensource #bigdata

13 min read

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aldin

Dec 6 '23

💻 7 Open-Source DevTools That Save Time You Didn't Know to Exist ⌛🚀

#opensource #productivity #programming #webdev

4 min read

Dec 2 '23

Devblog #1: Welcome to Pixelino — The Birth of a Minimalist Pixel Art Drawing Tool

#tooling #programming #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dec 2 '23

Milvus Adventures December 1, 2023

#opensource #rag #vectordatabase #milvus

3 min read

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Dec 1 '23

How to Add/Embed Stream Chat to OBS Studio | Jan 2024

#productivity #beginners #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for 👨‍💻 A Developer's Roadmap to Open-Sourcing Your Project 🚀

Alex for OpenSign

Nov 30 '23

👨‍💻 A Developer's Roadmap to Open-Sourcing Your Project 🚀

#opensource #webdev #javascript #programming

3 min read

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