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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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Explores a novel fee model to fund open source

Daniel Balcarek

Sep 24

Polly Introduces an Open Source Maintenance Fee

#discuss #csharp #opensource #dotnet

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2 min read

Once

Sep 26

Why an AI Agent Can Execute the Same Action Twice

#ai #opensource #devops #security

6 min read

Asuran

Sep 26

Signed hackathon results anyone can recompute and verify

#dogfoodhackathon #opensource #python #hackathon

3 min read

Danushka Herath

Sep 26

I wanted Spring Boot's ergonomics without leaving Go

#go #webdev #opensource #programming

6 min read

Jay_Stride

Sep 26

I built a tiny CLI to see how my coding agent actually worked

#opensource #cli #ai #productivity

2 min read

thehwang

Sep 25

Scripta 3.4.7: schedule local meeting recordings without sending anything to the cloud

#swift #opensource #privacy

4 min read

Ayu Adiati

Sep 25

Keeping up with docs reviews: Building a tracker for Mautic's documentation PRs

#opensource #documentation #ai #github

11 min read

Sep 25

How I removed polling from a Linux laptop power manager

#linux #opensource #python #performance

4 min read

Ali Çelik

Sep 25

Translating a content app into 46 languages without a translation API bill

#opensource #machinelearning #i18n #sideprojects

2 min read

Sep 25

I Built a Stock Price Prediction App While Learning ML — Here's What I Learned

#showdev #learning #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

Miroslav Šotek

Sep 25

Five times our coding agents said "it works", and it didn't

#ai #testing #python #opensource

4 min read

çınar

Sep 25

Building 9 Zero-Dependency Cybersecurity & DFIR Tools in Pure Python and Win32 API

#showdev #python #security #opensource

4 min read

Ofer's Instinct Bot

Sep 25

Everyone is arguing about whether agents read AGENTS.md. Nobody asks where the rules come from.

#ai #agents #codereview #opensource

3 min read

Sep 25

SOC 2 readiness for open-source projects on a zero budget

#soc2 #compliance #opensource #security

2 min read

Fahad Bilal Saleem

Sep 25

Taphonomy: FAT32 file recovery that refuses to guess

#showdev #rust #forensics #opensource

2 min read

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