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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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Srikanth

Dec 5 '23

How Django keeps track of your model classes?

#python #django #opensource #programming

7 min read

Morganna for Feministech

Dec 5 '23

Do medo do Open Source ao impacto na comunidade: Projeto Octocats Hacktoberfest 2023

#hacktoberfest #braziliandevs #devrel #opensource

3 min read

Jing

Dec 7 '23

Regression Testing: A Complete Guide

#tutorial #opensource #programming #devops

7 min read

Ragavi Venugopal

Dec 7 '23

Git Essentials for Beginners: A Painless Dive into Version Control

#git #github #devops #opensource

3 min read

Lars Jacobsson for AWS Community Builders

Dec 6 '23

Take StepFunctions' TestState API one step further with samp-cli

#aws #stepfunctions #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Namatuzio

Dec 7 '23

Custom Themes and Dark Mode

#webdev #opensource #design #python

1 min read

Dec 4 '23

🔥Top 5 Killer Websites for Developers😎

#webdev #productivity #opensource #programming

4 min read

Dec 7 '23

I Wrote a Book on Publishing Python Packages: Here's Why It Matters

#python #beginners #opensource #oop

3 min read

zvone187

Dec 5 '23

🤜💥🤛 GPT-4 vs Claude-2 context recall analysis

#opensource #datascience #productivity #machinelearning

7 min read

Greptime

Nov 7 '23

Chaos Engineering - Who's to Blame for the Bug Mess?

#database #chaosengineering #rust #opensource

4 min read

JS for ZenStack

Dec 5 '23

Contributing To Open Source Projects Might Be Easier Than You Think

#opensource #webdev #learning #beginners

4 min read

Gabriel L. Manor for Permit.io

Dec 6 '23

🚀 Top 12 Open Source Auth Projects Every Developer Should Know 🔑

#opensource #webdev #programming #security

9 min read

Dec 6 '23

Exploring Ansible: A Powerful Automation Tool

#webdev #ansible #devops #opensource

3 min read

Jamesb

Dec 6 '23

Managing Long-Running LLM Data Processing Pipelines

#ai #openai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Akbar Ali

Dec 6 '23

This or that?

#webdev #javascript #github #opensource

1 min read

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