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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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Michele Dallachiesa

Mar 5 '24

Track and Collaborate on AI Experiments with MLtraq

#aiops #machinelearning #opensource #mltraq

1 min read

Mar 25 '24

Lessons from open-source: Replace zod with superstruct if you do not use zod’s advanced capabilities

#javascript #opensource #react #nextjs

2 min read

Bap

Mar 22 '24

👑 10 trending YC-backed OSS startups 🦾

#opensource #github #webdev #programming

5 min read

Feb 20 '24

Embracing Transparency: Dr. Allan Friedman's Vision for Open Source Security

#cybersecurity #opensource #security #transparency

2 min read

Mar 25 '24

🤖 Building RAG chatbot with NeMo Guardrails !💡

#ai #python #security #opensource

2 min read

yogini16

Mar 25 '24

10 Exciting Open Source Frameworks Built on .NET Core You Need to Know About

#opensource #webdev #dotnetcore

4 min read

Yilia for API7

Mar 25 '24

Data Masking: Securing Data Safety and Compliance with API7 Enterprise

#programming #tutorial #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mila Wu

Mar 21 '24

🔍Underrated Open Source Projects You Should Know About 🧠

#beginners #programming #opensource #github

3 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Mar 24 '24

Introducing the idea of Web Handlers in ChatCraft

#webdev #opensource #react #programming

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 3 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #194

#opensource #aws

20 min read

Nik L.

Mar 23 '24

Managing Concurrent Database Writes in a Distributed System with Redis or PostgreSQL

#database #javascript #opensource #programming

3 min read

Abhishek Keshri

Mar 24 '24

How to be good at Open Source 🧑‍💻🌏

#github #opensource #community #learning

1 min read

LousyCake

Mar 3 '24

Mesmerizing Matrix-Style Simulation: Bringing the Iconic Falling Letters to Life with Go

#animation #programming #opensource #go

2 min read

Mar 23 '24

Optimize your React’s Carousel with MediaLoader

#react #webdev #opensource #performance

3 min read

Rizèl Scarlett

Mar 21 '24

How JSON Web Tokens Power Mobile Driver's Licenses

#javascript #web5 #opensource #identity

11 min read

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