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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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Jake Page for Distr

May 27 '24

Kubernetes fail compilation: but they keep getting worse

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #learning

11 min read

Jesse Williams for Jozu

May 30 '24

When to Dockerize vs. When to use ModelKit

#programming #beginners #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

MrXujiang

Jun 2 '24

We made a page visualization to build an open source project

#webdev #react #opensource #frontend

4 min read

Dunsin

Jun 1 '24

The Ultimate beginners guide to open source – part 3: ways to find open source projects to contribute to

#webdev #beginners #opensource #learning

2 min read

Oluwanifemi Daramola

Jun 1 '24

Oluwanifemi's Day 1 of Forever

#opensource #outreachy #osm #hotosm

2 min read

Jun 1 '24

Unleash Your Coding Potential: 100+ Curated GitHub Repositories (Free Share)

#github #opensource #programming #devcommunity

1 min read

Samagra Shrivastava

Jun 1 '24

Building Chat Applications with OpenAI's GPT-3.5-turbo using Streamlit, Chainlit, and Gradio

#python #opensource #openai #tutorial

5 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

May 24 '24

Is Kubernetes a database? CRDs explained in five minutes

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #tutorial

5 min read

enumura1

Jun 1 '24

React library for creating UI with shaking animation

#opensource #uianimation #typescript #webdev

2 min read

May 28 '24

ascii-based graphics: the only image file format for the terminal

#showdev #opensource #github #terminal

6 min read

May 31 '24

“Mail” example in shadcn-ui/ui manages state using Jotai.

#javascript #jotai #opensource #nextjs

4 min read

Kristina Kaldenbach for Tidelift

May 31 '24

Upstream preview: Life after the xz utils backdoor hack

#upstream #opensource #security #xz

3 min read

Ekekenta Odionyenfe Clinton for Strapi

May 31 '24

Introduction to Strapi Media Library

#opensource #testing #unittest #beginners

7 min read

Odipo Otieno (KwargDevs)

May 31 '24

Python *args and **kwargs

#python #opensource #webdev #javascript

1 min read

Travis

May 19 '24

Side Hustle Ideas for Developers in 2024

#webdev #opensource #learning #tutorial

3 min read

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