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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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KevinTen

Apr 21

The Brutal Truth About Building Your "Second Brain": What 30 Dev.to Posts Taught Me About Failure

#ai #opensource

8 min read

Apr 25

Tian AI Self-Evolution: Code Modification Engine

#ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Apr 21

We built it during the NVIDIA DGX Spark Full-Stack AI Hackathon — and it ended up winning 1st place overall 🏆

#ai #productivity #opensource #architecture

1 min read

May 25

Open Source AI vs Closed AI - A Fresher's Honest Take on Which Side to Be On

#ai #opensource

3 min read

GDS K S

May 23

Microsoft tried to kill the printer driver. Healthcare said no.

#webdev #productivity #opensource #beginners

7 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

From Knowledge Hoarding to Business Weapon: How My "Second Brain" Actually Made Money

#ai #opensource #knowledge #business

6 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

The Brutal Truth About Building Your "Second Brain": What 2,847 Articles Taught Me About Knowledge Management

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

5 min read

Apr 21

how to automate ssl certificate expiry monitoring with a simple api

#api #webdev #devtools #opensource

1 min read

Apr 21

Hermes Agent Review: Self-Improving Open-Source AI Agent

#hermesagent #nousresearch #aiagents #opensource

10 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

The Unexpected Truth About Personal Knowledge Management: What My "Second Brain" Actually Taught Me

#ai #opensource #knowledge

6 min read

Apr 21

The team workspace for AI agents - an architecture walkthrough

#ai #opensource #productivity #webdev

5 min read

Apr 21

Hackers Love Lazy Developers — 19 Security Mistakes You’re Making Right Now

#security #devops #webdev #opensource

13 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

From Hell to Haven: My Six-Month Journey with Capa-Java

#ai #opensource #java #cloud

6 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

From Notepad to Neural Network: The Brutal Truth About My 2-Year Journey Building a Knowledge Management System

#ai #opensource #knowledge

6 min read

KevinTen

Apr 21

35 Dev.to Posts Later: What My "Second Brain" Project Actually Taught Me About Failure

#ai #opensource #knowledge #failure

5 min read

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