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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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Amnish Singh Arora

Dec 12 '23

Planning for an Open Source Contribution

#cloud #opensource #javascript #research

4 min read

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Bap

Nov 30 '23

🚀 5 PRO Tips for an Unbeatable GitHub README! 🥊

#productivity #programming #opensource #webdev

7 min read

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Pieces 🌟 for Pieces.app

Dec 12 '23

Open Source by Pieces: Meet the Contributors

#opensource #startup #ai #beginners

4 min read

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Dec 11 '23

Building a PDF Summarizer with LangChain

#programming #tutorial #python #opensource

3 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Dec 2 '23

Step 2 - progress report

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Yousef

Dec 1 '23

Planning More Enhancements for Explore.CLI

#opensource #dotnet #csharp #beginners

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Dec 11 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #182

#opensource #aws

23 min read

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Nov 29 '23

Tips to use GitHub as your Portfolio

#github #career #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Gianluca

Dec 11 '23

Declutter Your Kubernetes Cluster: Automate Resource Removal and Updates with Cleaner

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Dec 8 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 63)

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

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silencer.xyz for ILLA Cloud

Dec 11 '23

Hello everyone, I'm Owen. We have spent two years developing a very cool open-source low-code tool.

#webdev #javascript #lowcode #opensource

2 min read

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Dec 11 '23

Embracing the AI and Cybersecurity Evolution: Lessons from Tech Conferences

#cybersecurity #ai #opensource #security

2 min read

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Adheeban Manoharan

Dec 11 '23

The Battle of PR-Agents⚡

#opensource #productivity #ai

5 min read

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Dedar Alam

Dec 11 '23

Exploring Language Models with Gitpod & Ollama

#ai #opensource

1 min read

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Jem for Graphile

Dec 11 '23

Graphile Worker 0.16 released — reliable, extensible and performant

#news #opensource #queues #postgres

6 min read

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