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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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Cover image for Swirl: An open-source search engine with LLMs and ChatGPT to provide all the answers you need 🌌

𝚂𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚒

Sep 6 '23

Swirl: An open-source search engine with LLMs and ChatGPT to provide all the answers you need 🌌

#python #ai #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

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Jon Snow

Sep 11 '23

100 + Login/Signup form for web developers

#css #webdev #opensource #beginners

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 8 '23

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 58)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted #100daysofoss

1 min read

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Vitor Amaral for Basestack

Sep 12 '23

Feature Flags with JavaScript Proxies

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Sep 12 '23

Comparing SQL and Cypher Query Language

#database #opensource #apacheage #postgres

2 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Sep 11 '23

Open Source ABCs: open data

#discuss #opensource #100daysofoss

1 min read

Sep 12 '23

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial #100daysofcode

1 min read

Avelyn Hyunjeong Choi

Sep 12 '23

My first code review in open-source community

#opensource #beginners #codereview #testing

4 min read

Cover image for Detecting changes in JavaScript and CSS isn't an easy task, Part 3

Sep 12 '23

Detecting changes in JavaScript and CSS isn't an easy task, Part 3

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #microsaas

5 min read

Cover image for Ryan Dahl, and the story of his Wizardry in Opensource

Muhammad Bin Zafar

Sep 7 '23

Ryan Dahl, and the story of his Wizardry in Opensource

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

2 min read

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Ayu Adiati

Sep 11 '23

#100DaysOfOSS Recap: Day 28-50

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #webdev

5 min read

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haimantika mitra for Appwrite

Sep 11 '23

Introducing 1.4 Lightning Hackathon: Functions

#hackathon #opensource #git

2 min read

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Megabit

Sep 12 '23

Simple and easy-to-use JSON parser in C

#c #programming #json #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Reacting with 💩👍🐛 to Code: How I Built a Free Extension to Add Emojis to Your VSCode

Alex Harris for Adadot

Sep 5 '23

Reacting with 💩👍🐛 to Code: How I Built a Free Extension to Add Emojis to Your VSCode

#showdev #opensource #programming #vscode

3 min read

Sebastian Wessel for PURISTA

Sep 12 '23

PURISTA - Tests with Jest, Sinon.js and Testcontainers

#javascript #typescript #testing #opensource

4 min read

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