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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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Melphins

May 7

Database migrations are critical. Forgetting them costs teams hours weekly.

#showdev #database #opensource #tooling

1 min read

May 7

Free Workshop: Building a Company Around an OSS Project

#opensource #startup #entrepreneurship #learning

1 min read

SweepBase

May 7

How I Maintained an Awesome-List of 136 Crypto Cards as a CI-Linted Dataset

#showdev #github #opensource #webdev

2 min read

May 30

Building a Free OSHA Compliance Tool — 8 Weeks Solo

#machinelearning #aws #python #opensource

6 min read

weiseer

May 30

I tested mcp-doctor pricing with 12 LLM-simulated personas. 4 said they would pay.

#mcp #security #opensource #ai

5 min read

May 7

Building EDIFlow - Infrastructure Layer: Parsers, Repositories & Data Packages (Part 4)

#typescript #cleanarchitecture #opensource #edi

6 min read

May 7

The Next Generation of Eventide

#eventsourcing #architecture #ruby #opensource

1 min read

Praveen

May 30

Enterprise AI Governance Starts With Identity, Not Inference

#discuss #devops #opensource #security

3 min read

Glendel Joubert Fyne Acosta

May 30

Building AI Workflows Is Easy. Making Them Reliable Is Systems Engineering

#ai #architecture #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

May 7

I got tired of using the terminal to launch emulators, so I built a free system tray GUI to manage them.

#androiddev #opensource #android

2 min read

WonderLab

May 7

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 58): Agent Skills - Injecting Senior Engineer Discipline into AI Coding Agents

#opensource #agentskills #claude #agents

7 min read

Duchan

May 30

# Giving an LLM Eyes and Hands on a Mobile Simulator

#opensource #ios #android #mcp

5 min read

TIGER hu

May 30

How I Built a Cross-Platform Project Management System for AI Agents

#opensource #ai #productivit #tooling

2 min read

yong pan

May 7

I built a free, no-registration suite of online tools for developers

#nocode #webdev #workstations #opensource

1 min read

weiseer

May 30

I scanned 200 popular MCP server packages. Here is what I found.

#mcp #security #supplychain #opensource

4 min read

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