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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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Behram

Feb 5

Stop Renting Intelligence: The Economics of Local LLMs & The Return of Ownership

#ai #productivity #opensource #hardware

3 min read

NocoBase

Jan 1

Announcing NocoBase 2.0-beta

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

17 min read

mathiasag7

Jan 1

Stop Creating 50 Users When You Only Need 5: Solving Django's Relationship Inflation Problem

#django #python #testing #opensource

4 min read

hmza

Jan 1

LanManVan: setting up!

#go #cybersecurity #opensource #python

3 min read

Juan Denis

Feb 2

I Built My Own DeepSite Alternative That Works with Kimi K2.5, Gemini, or Any Model

#ai #webdev #python #opensource

5 min read

kokos

Jan 1

I Built a Self-Hosted Content Moderation API (Open Source)

#opensource #ai #security #python

3 min read

jelly cri

Jan 25

Building PriorityPilot: A CLI Project Manager That Learns From Your Decisions

#python #programming #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

forest6511

Jan 6

Stop Pasting Secrets into AI Chat - Use AI-Safe Credentials Instead

#ai #security #opensource #mcp

2 min read

Kai

Feb 5

Local-First Memory for AI Agents: An Open Alternative to Cloud Platforms

#ai #agents #memory #opensource

9 min read

Markus Neusinger

Jan 6

I built pyplots.ai - 1000+ library-agnostic Python plotting examples

#showdev #python #dataviz #opensource

1 min read

Jashwanth

Feb 5

If your ANN is slow, stop blaming the math...your memory is already plotting against you.

#discuss #opensource #career #learning

2 min read

Kaustubh Kushwaha

Jan 6

Maps are easy. Map UIs are not.

#webdev #react #frontend #opensource

1 min read

Feb 5

Looking for Open Source Contributors — Let’s Build Terminal Atmosphere Together 🌍

#opensource #ai #webdev #node

2 min read

Ovi ren

Jan 27

i made buttons that run away from you (prank projects)

#javascript #webdev #html #opensource

4 min read

Sam March

Feb 5

How I built Live View for browsers running in Docker

#opensource #devops #browser #ai

2 min read

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