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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).

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 #opensource #ai #agents

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Aug 19

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#ai #seo #opensource #python

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Aug 19

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#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

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Aug 19

I Built a Privacy Layer for AI Coding Tools — CodeMask UI and CodeMask Proxy

#ai #agents #claude #opensource

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Your AI governance dashboard is probably lying to you. Mine was too.

#ai #opensource #security #github

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I built an open-source, offline-first AI Content Factory — one topic in, a complete content package out

#opensource #ai #python

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Aug 19

Learnt Git Rebasing the hard way

#opensource #google #ai #gsoc

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WWP

Aug 19

I let an AI agent run my trading bots unattended. It broke twice before I built a gate to stop it.

#ai #opensource #python #security

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Aug 19

QZ Tray with React: Print Directly from the Browser

#javascript #opensource #react

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Aug 19

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#llm #opensource #ai #machinelearning

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Aug 19

How I Organize and Ship Small Open‑Source Projects

#productivity #devex #opensource #devops

4 min read

Aug 19

We Publish the Data Before It's Correct. On Purpose.

#opensource #data #gis #api

7 min read

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Passing GSoC Midterms

#ai #gsoc #github #opensource

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#opensource #wordpress #woocommerce #stripe

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Hyperia 0.17.5 is Released

#ai #programming #opensource #llm

1 min read

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