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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.

submission guidelines

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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Feb 1 '24

Next.js Codebase Analysis <> create-next-app <> index.ts explained - Part 1.11

#opensource #webdev #javascript #nextjs

2 min read

Hasan for Winglang

Feb 1 '24

Wing Custom Platforms: Transforming Infrastructure Policies into Code

#webdev #programming #opensource #development

12 min read

Marc-Olivier Bouchard

Feb 1 '24

Build smart AI chatbot with Open AI assistant in few minutes!

#openai #opensource #chatgpt #chatbot

3 min read

Yacine Si Tayeb

Feb 1 '24

Enhancing Performance in Microservice Architecture with Kitex

#programming #go #microservices #opensource

16 min read

Paulo Ponciano for AWS Community Builders

Feb 1 '24

o11y: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki e Tempo no EKS [Lab Session]

#community #eks #o11y #opensource

5 min read

Ella

Feb 1 '24

The Future of Staying Healthy: 10 Ways IOT Make Care Easier!

#productivity #iot #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Feb 1 '24

Navigating Open Source Projects with Tublian

#opensource #tublian #emergingdevelopers #softwareengineering

2 min read

Feb 1 '24

Why is there no mobile version of Pidgin?

#opensource #mobile #licensing #distribution

5 min read

Edoardo Dusi for SparkFabrik

Feb 1 '24

How (and why) to contribute to open source

#opensource #community #beginners #programming

7 min read

0xtorchieG

Feb 1 '24

Decoding web3 data into human readable format

#web3 #datastructures #decoding #opensource

30 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Feb 1 '24

Understanding SSE(Server-Sent Events) and Its Benefits

#sse #programming #opensource #devops

3 min read

Feb 1 '24

Introducing EOSAV: A Free and Open-Source Antivirus for Everyone

#opensource #python #software

2 min read

Jan 31 '24

How I build a YouTube Video Player with ReactJS: Building FrameTooltip component

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

9 min read

lucasnscr

Jan 31 '24

Generative AI with SpringBoot Services

#ia #springboot #java #opensource

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Jan 31 '24

Open Source Meaning: post-2000 evolutions

#opensource #openeducation #openscience

2 min read

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