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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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Barry Michael Doyle

Apr 12

Why I Built Patch Pulse

#opensource #webdev #typescript #productivity

4 min read

Derivinate

Mar 13

OpenClaw Just Became GitHub's Most-Starred Project—Here's Why

#aiagents #opensource #github #localfirst

5 min read

EdFife

Apr 15

🤖 My AI Agents Version Themselves: How We Built Self-Evolving Personas Using Semantic Versioning

#ai #opensource #llm #programming

21 min read

Iryna

Mar 12

10 Fivetran Alternatives Worth Checking Out

#saas #data #opensource #aws

4 min read

Hendry

Mar 12

The Info-Site: A Name for Something Small Businesses Actually Need

#webdev #selfhosted #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Mar 12

How to Automate OpenClaw Backup and Optimization with GitHub

#devops #automation #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Max Klein

Mar 12

How spreading activation beats keyword search for LLM agents

#rust #ai #llm #opensource

2 min read

Mar 12

OpenClaw Is My Right Hand. n8n Is My Hands. Here's How I Automate My Life

#ai #automation #n8n #opensource

7 min read

Mar 12

How I Manage 45 Daily Tasks with OpenClaw + NocoDB (Free vs $100+/mo)

#ai #productivity #opensource #selfhosted

6 min read

Clifton Cunningham

Apr 2

Drizby: An Open Source BI Platform Built on a Semantic Layer (and why I built it)

#analytics #opensource #typescript #ai

8 min read

Jamie W.

Mar 12

When Spreadsheets Stop Working: The Awkward Middle Between Sheets and ERP

#programming #productivity #opensource #devops

3 min read

Zeke

Apr 15

Sybil Resistance Without Biometrics: Multi-Dimensional Identity Scoring

#nostr #identity #security #opensource

2 min read

Mar 12

When the Best Tech Isn't the Best Choice: MailerLite to Listmonk

#selfhosted #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Mar 12

How I Saved $348/Year with a Self-Hosted Newsletter

#selfhosted #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Mar 12

Taiga vs Vikunja: Self-Hosted Project Management

#selfhosted #devops #opensource #homelab

3 min read

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