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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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NocoBase

Oct 10

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

FERNANDO JOSEPH GBEDEGBE GBEYETIN

Oct 11

Collaborative Odoo 19 Community Development – Custom Modules & Benin Standardized Invoicing

#postgres #ai #python #opensource

1 min read

c1oudM0

Oct 9

Obfuscating Solana Transaction Trails with Custom Entropy (Rust)

#rust #solana #blockchain #opensource

1 min read

Oct 14

Stop Building AI Backends — Meet the Open-Source Vezlo AI Assistant Server

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Alex Zhong

Oct 10

Git Stars: Discover & Track Trending Open Source Projects on GitHub

#opensource #github #developers

1 min read

Oct 15

Mime package in Nitro codebase.

#server #nitro #mime #opensource

2 min read

Prathmesh barot

Oct 21

Building Rynex: A 175KB TypeScript Framework Without Virtual DOM

#typescript #webdev #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Dmitrii

Oct 23

Building Reliable Pricing for AI Chatbots

#opensource #typescript #startup #ai

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Kyle Homen

Oct 10

Hacktoberfest Week 1

#hacktoberfest #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

NocoBase

Oct 15

NocoBase in Russia: Multi-Scenario Digital Solutions in Action

#news #opensource #database #nocode

6 min read

Ali Ghaedrahmat

Oct 9

I built Clarion, an opensource AI Agent & Context Engineering software

#showdev #ai #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Oct 9

Introducing @spexop/icons: A Modern React Icon Library with 262 Professional Icons

#react #typescript #opensource #ui

4 min read

VebGen Official

Oct 22

I Built an AI Agent That Cost $0 and Outperforms $500/Month Tools

#ai #python #django #opensource

8 min read

PikaPods

Oct 10

PikaPods: Quick Hosting for Open-Source Apps Developers Actually Use

#opensource #devtools #automation #selfhosted

2 min read

Oct 10

Meshery uses Playwright for e2e testing.

#opensource #meshery #playwright

3 min read

Mohammad Shahzeb Alam

Oct 9

Participate in These 15 Open-Source Events During Hacktoberfest and Win Exciting Swag 🎁

#webdev #hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

11 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Oct 9

Day 27 of My 90 Days Python Series — Random Fun Fact Generator 🚀

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

Bipin C

Oct 22

# Self-Hosted Push Notifications Part-4

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

11 min read

Steven Hur

Oct 8

My Second PR: How I Bounced Back and Contributed to Scikit-learn

#beginners #opensource #python #machinelearning

2 min read

DeployHQ

Oct 21

Deploying Ghost CMS with DeployHQ: Automated Setup Guide

#ghost #node #opensource #cms

7 min read

Vu Hung Nguyen (Hưng)

Oct 8

Advanced Prompt Techniques for the Next Level of Vibe Coding

#ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Oct 8

🛡️ Introducing CodeSnoutr — AI-Powered Code Scanner for Laravel Developers

#laravel #webdev #opensource #ai

3 min read

Oct 8

Fully Configurable Open Source Audio Spectrum Analyzer

#showdev #opensource #cpp #python

1 min read

Oct 9

Grafana component in Meshery codebase.

#meshery #grafana #opensource #telemetry

2 min read

Oct 9

Beyond Free: Developers, It's Time to Reclaim Open Source from the Exploitation Trap

#opensource #licensing #developerburnout

7 min read

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