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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 11 '23

Embracing the AI and Cybersecurity Evolution: Lessons from Tech Conferences

#cybersecurity #ai #opensource #security

2 min read

Adheeban Manoharan

Dec 11 '23

The Battle of PR-Agents⚡

#opensource #productivity #ai

5 min read

Dedar Alam

Dec 11 '23

Exploring Language Models with Gitpod & Ollama

#ai #opensource

1 min read

Jem for Graphile

Dec 11 '23

Graphile Worker 0.16 released — reliable, extensible and performant

#news #opensource #queues #postgres

6 min read

Judy

Dec 11 '23

Four Ways to Improve Back-end Performance for Multidimensional Analysis

#programming #devops #opensource

7 min read

Mark Phelps for Flipt

Dec 11 '23

3 Reasons Why You Should Contribute to Open Source in 2024

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie #github

4 min read

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Dec 7 '23

Sloan's Inbox: How did open source come to be?

#discuss #learning #opensource

2 min read

Dec 11 '23

Biome: between code formatters and good competition

#javascript #opensource #biome #prettier

2 min read

Dec 11 '23

Demystifying PHP: A Beginner's Guide to PHP Superpowers

#phpbeginner #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Dec 11 '23

Finalizing my Vue.js Context Menu

#vue #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dec 11 '23

Enhancing my Vue.js Context Menu component

#vue #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Dec 8 '23

Open-source chat bubble components built with Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #opensource #flowbite #css

3 min read

tanya rai

Dec 9 '23

Using Facebook Research's Llama Guard to moderate ChatGPT convos

#discuss #ai #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Dec 10 '23

Starter template for Laravel + Nuxt.js development

#opensource #nuxt #laravel #webdev

2 min read

Dec 10 '23

How to Get Started with Digital Samba

#programming #tutorial #opensource #digitalsamba

7 min read

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