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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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Feb 14

Cute Magick: A Website Platform You Can Call Home

#webdev #opensource #docker #selfhosted

5 min read

Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 14

Update: Scaling Back The Foundation

#discuss #community #career #opensource

1 min read

Debdut Chakraborty for Rocket.Chat

Feb 13

Conditions, Phases, and Declarative Phase Rules in Kubernetes Operators

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

8 min read

Feb 14

Introducing NotumAi: The Open-Source, AI-Powered Annotation Tool

#opensource #python #javascript #deeplearning

2 min read

uuware

Feb 15

10 Minutes! Build a Stunning Personal CV Website with Markdown

#webdev #javascript #opensource #career

3 min read

Feb 13

Command Center for AI Coding Agents (Claude Code + Codex)

#opensource #ai #codex #claude

3 min read

Yurukusa

Feb 14

4 Hooks That Let Claude Code Run Autonomously (With Zero Babysitting)

#bash #opensource #claudecode #automation

2 min read

Feb 14

Opik: Your Agent's Black Box Flight Recorder

#agents #llm #opensource #testing

5 min read

chovy

Feb 14

Your Bookmarks Are Trapped — Here's How to Free Them

#browser #productivity #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Feb 14

GitHub Copilot CLI's Biggest Week Yet: 7 Releases in 10 Days

#github #devex #ai #opensource

7 min read

Tdsay

Feb 14

I Built a Privacy-Friendly Online Toolbox for Developers (No Uploads Needed)

#webdev #opensource #productivity #sideprojects

2 min read

Feb 15

I built PinchChat, an open-source webchat UI for OpenClaw

#opensource #webdev #ai #selfhosted

1 min read

Andrew

Feb 14

Foswiki on macOS — Silent Launch and Folder Permission Fix

#devjournal #opensource #tooling #tutorial

4 min read

LPW

Feb 14

6 months until the EU AI Act hits. Here's what runtime security means.

#security #ai #devops #opensource

7 min read

Guilherme Costa

Feb 14

Code Telescope: bringing Telescope's power to VS Code

#vscode #neovim #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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