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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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Dec 7 '23

Time-Independent Dates in Swift

#swift #time #opensource

1 min read

Bryce Seefieldt

Jan 9 '24

NeoGPT contributions continued...

#gpt3 #opensource #python #ai

2 min read

Jan 9 '24

5 Reasons why you should switch to Linux as a developer

#opensource #linux #development

2 min read

Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Jan 8 '24

Who is coming to FOSDEM 2024?

#watercooler #discuss #opensource

1 min read

Utpal Nadiger for Digger

Jan 4 '24

10 open source tools that platform, SRE and DevOps engineers should consider in 2024.

#opensource #devops #kubernetes #aws

7 min read

Jan 8 '24

How I became an Outreachy Intern.

#outreachy #opensource #django #diveristy

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 8 '24

AWS open source newsletter, #183

#opensource #aws

23 min read

TThroo-Dev

Jan 8 '24

JSONCrack Codebase Analysis — Part 4.3 — LiveEditor

#webdev #javascript #opensource #nextjs

4 min read

Jan 8 '24

How I build a YouTube Video Player with ReactJS: Building the Volume Control

#opensource #react #javascript #tutorial

24 min read

Jan 8 '24

Week 1: The Meet and Greet

#outreachy #opensource #teamwork #developers

2 min read

Thomas Bnt

Jan 6 '24

2024, me voilà ! 🤩

#devresolutions2024 #opensource #career

1 min read

Shrijal Acharya

Jan 11 '24

✨ Top 5 Underrated Open Source Projects that no one talks about 🫵🤐

#productivity #devops #opensource #programming

5 min read

Jan 19 '24

GitHub Readme: Responsive? 🤔 Animated? 🤯 Light and dark modes? 😱 You bet! 💪🏼

#github #opensource #webdev #css

6 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Jan 25 '24

Resume Driven Contributions

#career #opensource

4 min read

Jan 8 '24

Mixtral-8x7b Simplified

#opensource #llm #machinelearning #beginners

3 min read

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