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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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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Ayu Adiati

Oct 15

Giving non-code contributions the recognition they deserve

#hacktoberfest #opensource #nocode #codenewbie

4 min read

Sivaram

Oct 15

MdBin: Share Beautiful Rendered Markdown Instead of Raw Code

#markdown #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Santiago Fernández

Oct 15

Implementing Parallel PDF Batch Processing in Rust

#showdev #rust #programming #opensource

4 min read

Federico Raffoni

Oct 15

Why We Built Another AI Framework (And Why You Might Care)

#ai #python #opensource #programming

5 min read

Oct 15

How I changed C++ forever

#cpp #ai #opensource #codenewbie

1 min read

Plínio Balduino

Oct 14

Depurando um crash de use-after-free no meniOS

#operatingsystem #osdev #ptbr #opensource

6 min read

Software Developer

Oct 15

50 Most Useful Linux Commands 🐧

#opensource #linux #commandline #devops

3 min read

Luc_C

Oct 15

Free URL Shortener

#showdev #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Oct 15

🚀 Building a CSS DevTool in Public (6 Hours/Week Challenge)

#css #webdev #opensource #programming

1 min read

Mike

Oct 15

Unlocking the Power of Open Source: How Collaboration Fuels Innovation in Software Development

#opensource #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

Judy

Oct 15

Is SPL more difficult or easier than SQL?

#discuss #programming #opensource #sql

15 min read

Oct 15

Building High-Performance Secp256k1 ECDSA for PHP: 2,987 Faster

#webdev #programming #opensource #php

3 min read

Yash Raj

Oct 15

WTH is openFGA and implementing Role-Based Access Control in GO servers.

#architecture #opensource #security #go

6 min read

Oct 14

Pawn Appétit: Professional Chess Analysis, Zero Cost

#chess #opensource #rust #tauri

2 min read

nyaomaru

Oct 15

Building Type Guards Like LEGO Blocks: Making Reusable Logic with is-kit

#typescript #programming #opensource #coding

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 15

# 0delay (Zero-Delay) My alternative File transfer system for Linux computers and aws EC2 servers

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Oct 15

Mime package in Nitro codebase.

#server #nitro #mime #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Jessica Temporal

Oct 15

Learn to make pull requests using GitHub Codespaces and contribute to open source

#opensource #github #git #hacktoberfest

10 min read

RisingWave Labs

Oct 14

Fixing the Half-Transaction Problem in Real-Time CDC

#programming #productivity #opensource #datascience

9 min read

Oct 15

What Is Open Source and Why It Matters ?

#opensource #devdiscuss #development #github

2 min read

Oct 15

Let's Talk About Accessibility (Without the Headache) 🧠😅

#webdev #programming #a11y #opensource

3 min read

Adem Kouki

Oct 14

FlashFuzz ⚡Quick URL Fuzzing & Secret Scanning, straight from your browser

#webdev #opensource #security #webtesting

3 min read

Prateek YJ

Oct 13

We just open-sourced XAI’s Macrohard, an autonomous computer-using agent

#automation #ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Anshuman Jadiya

Oct 13

HACKTOBERFEST - A journey for Open-Source

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Tam Le

Oct 13

Hash Checker – A Lightweight Cross-Platform File Integrity Verification Tool

#opensource #crossplatform #rust #tooling

2 min read

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