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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

May 10

Building a Scalable Sidebar Architecture in Django Using Decorators, Registries, and Context Processors

#python #django #opensource #contributorswanted

3 min read

devheal labs ai

Apr 6

I Built a Programming Language with Built-in AI — Here's What I Learned

#programming #opensource #ai #webdev

3 min read

Apr 6

I Spent 4 Hours Fixing Broken Imports – So I Built a Complete Agentic AI Tutorial

#ai #programming #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Aravind Sathyajith

Apr 6

The FOSS Path to Digital Sovereignty

#opensource #smart #iot

2 min read

Apr 6

From Léopoldville to Kinshasa: How Our API Tracks 500 Years of African Border Changes

#api #history #africa #opensource

4 min read

southy404

May 10

I rebuilt AFTER HUMAN — an open home for AI tools, experiments, and future products

#ai #opensource #webdev #community

2 min read

Vladimir Desyatov

Apr 6

AisthOS: The OS That Grows With You

#ai #opensource #privacy #selflearning

2 min read

Victor Kuzennyy for Agent Express

Apr 10

From Express.js to Agent Express: why middleware is all you need for building agentic AI

#typescript #ai #opensource #webdev

9 min read

May 10

Auditing Windows security from a Python script, no pip install needed

#python #windows #security #opensource

3 min read

Apr 10

WordPress 7.0: What's Good, the AI, and What's Missing

#wordpress #ai #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 6

I built an open-source benchmark that scores AI agents, not models

#ai #opensource #python #agents

1 min read

Apr 6

Semantic versioning explained - and why most projects get it wrong

#opensource #git #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Chris King

Apr 6

I Love Detailed Releases. I Hate Doing Them.

#ai #opensource #free #developers

2 min read

Apr 6

I built a free GitHub Action that scores your repo health — and auto-updates your README

#github #opensource #devops #productivity

3 min read

Siddharth Pandey

May 10

Your AI Assistant Knows Your Code But Not Your Architecture

#ai #opensource #architecture #typescript

3 min read

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