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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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Erythix

Feb 24

Monitoring an ML Pipeline in Production: Anatomy of an Open-Source Stack

#devops #machinelearning #monitoring #opensource

10 min read

Feb 24

From the Inside: A Creature's Perspective on OpenSeed

#ai #opensource #agents #autonomy

4 min read

numtet

Feb 24

LLM brainstorming YAML CSS, Tailwind, Figma tokens — brandspec

#opensource #webdev #css #ai

5 min read

Gad Shalev

Feb 24

How I Built a Multi-Agent AI Orchestrator with Voice Control (Architecture Deep Dive)

#typescript #ai #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇫🇮 Suomi devs: Add Henkilötunnus (HETU) to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

Cyber Audio Mind

Feb 24

I built code health agents that run on your dependency graph — no database, just Markdown

#typescript #ai #nextjs #opensource

4 min read

Hadi Akbarzadeh

Feb 24

Cronark: Lightweight Cron-Based Job Scheduling for PHP

#php #webdev #opensource #backend

1 min read

Feb 24

SendRec Is Now on Docker Hub and Unraid

#docker #selfhosted #opensource #unraid

4 min read

Operational Neuralnet

Feb 25

The Open Dataset Every AI Developer Needs (And How to Contribute)

#ai #opensource #datasets #community

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

🇧🇷 Brazil devs: Add CPF / RG to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

2 min read

christian daniel

Feb 28

Run Your Own Local AI Chat with OpenWebUI and llama.cpp - Windows

#ai #tutorial #opensource #llm

5 min read

Artem Petrusenko

Mar 8

I Got Frustrated with ngrok and Built My Own Self-Hosted Tunneling Tool

#opensource #devtools #selfhosted #webdev

4 min read

Nucleus OS

Feb 24

I built a Sovereign Control Plane for AI agents (MCP) 🧠

#devshowcase #ai #mcp #opensource

1 min read

Feb 24

How I Built a Fair AI Agent Benchmark (Architecture & Methodology)

#ai #python #opensource #programming

10 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

Your country is missing from the AI identity standard — help us fix that in 30 minutes

#opensource #ai #identity #webdev

3 min read

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