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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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Vedant Khairnar

Mar 20 '24

How to hire Developers for your Open Source Project?

#hiring #hyperswitch #opensource #programming

4 min read

Mar 30 '24

Stop using swagger-ui only, go with TypeScript SDK in browser

#openapi #swagger #opensource #typescript

5 min read

Mar 20 '24

Como fiz o Infinite Craft ser multiplayer com algumas linhas de código

#gamedev #braziliandevs #javascript #opensource

9 min read

keploy

Feb 20 '24

Mock vs Stub vs Fake: Understand the difference

#webdev #opensource #testing #development

3 min read

Feb 16 '24

Empowering Your Tech Journey: Building Confidence Through Open Source

#webdev #opensource #productivity #javascript

4 min read

Mar 20 '24

Reducing Bundle size of a Frontend application by optimizing Lodash imports

#webdev #javascript #opensource #lodash

1 min read

keploy

Feb 16 '24

Automated End to End tests using Property Based Testing | Part I

#opensource #testing #database #go

5 min read

Tung Leo

Mar 17 '24

Introducing DevOps Toolkit

#devops #opensource #docker #tooling

4 min read

Andrew Betts for Fastly

Mar 15 '24

Open source at Fastly is getting opener

#opensource #governance #fastly #community

8 min read

Mar 19 '24

Lessons from open-source: How to create an array containing 0..N using Array.from?

#javascript #node #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

Montegasppα Cacilhας

Mar 19 '24

It’s FOSS

#opensource #newsletter #freelance

1 min read

clemra

Mar 18 '24

RAG observability in 2 lines of code with Llama Index & Langfuse

#observability #llamaindex #rag #opensource

4 min read

Hana Wang

Feb 28 '24

FeatInsight: Leveraging OpenMLDB for Highly Efficient Feature Management and Orchestration

#machinelearning #opensource #tools #featureplatform

5 min read

Marine for Taipy

Mar 12 '24

Python libraries you need to know in 2025

#python #opensource #programming #list

7 min read

Mar 19 '24

Monthiversary Celebration

#bestfriend #javascript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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