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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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Mursal Furqan Kumbhar

Mar 10 '24

8 Free Websites that feel illegal to know..!

#beginners #productivity #ai #opensource

2 min read

Mar 12 '24

SecretService: Library for Storing Secrets in Google Apps Script

#googleappsscript #gas #opensource #security

2 min read

alisdairbr for Koyeb

Mar 12 '24

Build a Multimodal Chat App using LLaVA, Chainlit, and Replicate

#webdev #tutorial #ai #opensource

11 min read

Bap

Mar 8 '24

🚀 High-growth repos you should contribute to this weekend 🧑‍💻

#discuss #programming #opensource #github

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Mar 11 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #192

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Helitha Rupasinghe

Mar 9 '24

Supercharge Your Productivity: Top 7 AI Tools for March 2024

#productivity #ai #opensource

2 min read

Mar 11 '24

Crafting My NPM Package: Beyond jQuery

#javascript #npm #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Mar 7 '24

Supercharge Your Productivity with Ollama + Open Web UI and Large Language Models

#ollama #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Pieces 🌟 for Pieces.app

Mar 11 '24

Top 5 Open Source AI Chatbots for Developers

#ai #opensource #chatbots #beginners

6 min read

Mar 11 '24

Lessons from open-source: Can you use "require" and "import" in the same file in NodeJs

#javascript #node #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

Aleks Shelestov

Mar 11 '24

Building Open Source Form Management tool for Developers

#opensource #form #marketing #php

2 min read

Mar 11 '24

How to monitor Openshift using Datadog Operator

#kubernetes #opensource #containers #operator

7 min read

Mar 11 '24

How I reduced Tailwind CSS Home Page's HTML size by 28.5%, CSS by 23.7% and JS by 8.4%

#tailwindcss #css #frontend #opensource

4 min read

Mar 11 '24

Building a chat app: Chatrooms with Nodejs websockets and Vue (PART 2)

#vue #webdev #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Ayu Adiati for OpenSauced

Mar 5 '24

Collaborate, Conquer, & Grow: Mastering the Art of Issue Management for Open Source Projects

#opensource

5 min read

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