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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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Apr 19

Letterboxd For Music - BeatShelf

#webdev #opensource #programming #nextjs

1 min read

TI for Kreuzberg

Mar 16

How to Extract Text from PDF in Python (2026)

#python #pdf #opensource #ai

5 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 19

Kiwi-chan's Persistent Log-Gathering Blues

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Muhammed Yasin Yılmaz

Mar 16

Building an Open-Source AI Engine for Training Language Models — Cevahir AI

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #phyton

3 min read

Apr 18

PromptCraft AI: Free Prompt Generator for Midjourney, DALL-E 3 & Stable Diffusion

#ai #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 17

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Batty

Apr 5

I Built a Chess Engine with 5 AI Agents — Here's What Surprised Me

#ai #rust #opensource #programming

7 min read

Mar 16

ayat saadati — Complete Guide

#programming #tutorial #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Mar 16

Kavita Metadata Issues

#opensource #tooling #tutorial

3 min read

Mar 17

JudgeGPT & RogueGPT: Building Open-Source Platforms for AI Misinformation Research

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Luhui Dev

Mar 17

Embed a Geometry Canvas in Your Webpage with One Line of Code

#webdev #ai #ai4math #opensource

3 min read

Mar 20

I Built 24 AI Agents for My Terminal — Here's What They Do

#ai #opensource #javascript #productivity

1 min read

Ilias Georgopoulos

Mar 20

Building an Open-Source Payload Obfuscator with React & Vite

#cybersecurity #react #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Ch. Abdul Wahab

Apr 17

Maybe this is how Open-Source apps are born... 🚀

#opensource #python #javascript #testing

3 min read

Mar 16

Moveet: incidents, recording & replay, fleet management, dispatch flows, and 500+ tests

#showdev #opensource #typescript #webdev

4 min read

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