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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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What are the benefits of outsourcing software?

#softwaredevelopment #opensource

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

May 23 '24

The Lottery Factor in Open Source

#showdev #opensource #ai #laravel

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FONZACUS

May 28 '24

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#beginners #linux #opensource

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May 28 '24

Build a Safe and Respectful Community with Answer 1.3.1

#opensource #apache #go #community

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May 28 '24

Handy Open source image editor

#webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

uchemma001

May 27 '24

Measure DC Voltage and Current with Arduino: A Step-by-Step Guide with Simple Code and LCD Display

#opensource #beginners #coding #arduino

4 min read

Palomino for Logto

May 27 '24

Build Nuxt authentication with Logto

#nuxt #webdev #programming #opensource

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Mateusz Charytoniuk

May 27 '24

I made a framework, looking for early adopters! :)

#php #webdev #productivity #opensource

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May 27 '24

Why Experienced Programmers Fail Coding Interviews

#webdev #career #node #opensource

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Emanuele Fumagalli

May 26 '24

Tool to get daily GitHub stars history

#github #opensource #stats #stars

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jy95

May 26 '24

Private offline blogging open source projects ?

#help #opensource #privacy

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skywarth

May 26 '24

Chaotic Schedule v1.1 released!

#laravel #php #opensource #rng

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May 27 '24

Need Guidance on Python Package Development | NFTpy

#web3 #python #opensource #nft

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Furkan Gözükara

May 26 '24

IP-Adapter-FaceID-PlusV2–0 Shot Face Transfer — Auto Installer & Gradio App — Massed Compute, RunPod, Kaggle, Windows

#beginners #tutorial #ai #opensource

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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

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20+ easy AI projects you could build today (LangChain, CopilotKit, more)

#opensource #javascript #webdev #beginners

22 min read

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