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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 4

Evaluation in Tony Format

#architecture #automation #opensource #tooling

8 min read

abduznik

Feb 4

I consolidated my Git automation scripts into a unified AI stack: Git-Alchemist

#python #github #ai #opensource

1 min read

Kai

Feb 4

Why We Built 9 Agent Kits in 1 Day

#ai #agents #opensource #productivity

7 min read

Feb 4

Memory Is Not a Vector Database: Why AI Agents Need Beliefs, Not Storage

#ai #agents #opensource #engram

6 min read

Feb 4

BioNotes: Making Quality Biology Education Accessible to All Students (Class 5-12)

#science #nextjs #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Y H

Feb 4

Building an Open Source Android Voice Assistant with Kotlin

#android #opensource

1 min read

Marko

Feb 27

Why I built a Spring CRUD Generator as a Maven plugin (not a CLI)

#java #springboot #web #opensource

4 min read

Kai

Feb 4

Why We Built 9 Agent Kits in 1 Day (And Why That Matters)

#ai #agents #opensource #buildinpublic

8 min read

观察者003Obsever003

Feb 4

Collaboration Invitation for Knowledge Exploration Platform

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

ValPetal Tech Labs

Feb 4

Talk::Overflow #22 - PromCon EU 2025

#devops #containers #opensource #architecture

1 min read

Jon Radoff (Metavert)

Feb 27

Why I Built a Free SaaS Boilerplate with Go — and Gave It Away

#webdev #go #opensource #saas

9 min read

Salma Alam-Naylor

Mar 3

How to make your first contribution to an open source project

#webdev #opensource

11 min read

Daniil Koryto for GonkaGate

Feb 3

Cut LLM API costs with a decentralized inference network

#ai #opensource #api #productivity

5 min read

Norberto Krucheski

Feb 26

Hice una app de escritorio para procesar imágenes — sin nube, sin cuenta, todo local

#rust #react #tauri #opensource

3 min read

Feb 3

Why We Built an Open-Source Industrial BLE Protocol (AltessaBeacon

#bluetooth #iot #opensource

3 min read

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