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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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vanessa49

Mar 28

Personal AI Isn't Q&A — It's Iteration

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

6 min read

Mar 29

Sprint 4 Retrospective: Building the Media Orchestration Engine

#ai #agile #devops #opensource

6 min read

Apr 11

J Meter

#beginners #opensource #performance #testing

1 min read

Sushanth Purushothama

Mar 28

5 Pain Points Wagtail Users Face with Multilingual Sites

#wagtail #opensource #python #i18n

2 min read

Mar 28

Building a single-pass rich-text DSL parser (no regex)

#typescript #parser #dsl #opensource

1 min read

T.O

Mar 28

[Cloud Security in My Home Lab] Series 1 ~Building a Comprehensive CNAPP Platform with AI-Enhanced Threat Detection~

#security #ai #opensource #tutorial

18 min read

Anonym

Mar 29

Looking for collaborators for a strange but serious startup/world I’m building: Dollar Orchard

#webdev #programming #opensource #ai

3 min read

patchbay

Mar 28

I built the API directory ProgrammableWeb should have been

#showdev #webdev #api #opensource

2 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Three Months with Capa-Java: The Brutal Truth About "Write Once, Run Anywhere"

#java #cloud #programming #opensource

5 min read

SangheeSon

Apr 29

I don't want to give Claude SSH access to my home server

#ai #selfhosted #opensource #go

4 min read

Mar 28

I got tired of ad-heavy JSON formatters so I built my own — here's what I learned

#javascript #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 28

I Built a Universal CLI Scaffolding Tool — Scaffy v1.0.1 is Live

#opensource #node #javascript #cli

2 min read

Dulark

Mar 28

How We Built a Visual AI Workflow Builder — Lessons from Connecting Gemini, OpenAI, and Grok in One Canvas

#ai #webdev #opensource #react

3 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 29

I Built a Medicine Cabinet Interaction Checker That Finds Hidden Risks Between All Your Supplements and Drugs at Once

#health #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Oarcom

Mar 29

The EU Just Caught 4 Major Porn Sites Breaking the Law — I Checked What They Track

#privacy #security #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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