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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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Sreethul Krishna

Apr 21

Simplifying Anviz CrossChex Cloud Integration in Python (crosschexcloudapi)

#showdev #api #opensource #python

2 min read

Sreethul Krishna

Apr 21

I Built a Python Library for Matrix COSEC Biometric Devices (So You Don’t Have To)

#showdev #api #opensource #python

3 min read

Mar 18

Deluge vs Transmission: Torrent Clients Compared

#docker #linux #opensource #tooling

4 min read

Viktor Logvinov

Mar 31

Finding Beginner-Friendly Go AI Projects: A Guide to Open-Source Contributions

#go #ai #opensource #beginners

12 min read

N2 Dev

Mar 18

Soul v5.0: Your AI Agent Now Remembers People, Hardware, and Projects Across Sessions

#ai #mcp #opensource #productivity

3 min read

GXY Gomi

Mar 22

Addfox: Build Better Browser Extensions for Developers and AI

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Alexander Schneider

Mar 18

How to Add a Sentiment Confirmation Layer to OpenAlgo with Python

#python #trading #opensource #api

4 min read

Mihai Ciprian Chezan

Mar 18

I built Teukhos to wrap any CLI tool as an MCP server with just a YAML file

#mcp #opensource #python #devtools

1 min read

Apr 18

I got tired of wiring the same caching stack every project, so I built LayerCache

#node #typescript #redis #opensource

5 min read

Rabbimov Zohirbek

Mar 17

Операционная система Linux

#beginners #computerscience #linux #opensource

1 min read

Benji377

Mar 22

OpenMusic - My first Open source project

#android #opensource #music #kotlin

2 min read

Matthew Diakonov

Mar 18

Build a Local-First AI Agent with Ollama - No API Keys, No Cloud, No Signup

#ai #ollama #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

CodeKing

Apr 21

I Wanted One Local Gateway for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Telegram, Feishu, and DingTalk. So I Built CliGate

#opensource #ai #devtools #programming

4 min read

Aliaksandr Liapin

Apr 10

How I Built a Portable Battery SDK That Runs on 3 MCU Platforms

#embedded #iot #opensource #bluetooth

3 min read

Tucker Schreiber

Mar 18

AI agents are quietly building a tool registry for each other

#ai #devtools #opensource

2 min read

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