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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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Botánica Andina

Mar 28

Yerba Mate Caffeine: I Analyzed 47 Studies to Build a Calculator That Actually Works

#health #data #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Botánica Andina

Mar 28

I Built a Pregnancy Herb Safety Checker Because LactMed Ignores Andean Plants

#health #data #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Mar 27

From Apache SeaTunnel to ASF Member: A Story of Long-Term Commitment

#apacheseatunnel #asf #opensource #ai

7 min read

Zengkkj

Mar 30

Crow Docs Evolving: Stability, UX, and a New Community Channel 🚀

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Benjamin Wagner

Mar 27

I built Customermates, a selfhostable, opensource Pipedrive CRM replacement

#opensource #ai #startup #webdev

1 min read

Mar 26

I built an AI that fixes production errors and opens a PR — here's how it works

#devops #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Siddharth Singh

Mar 26

Root Cause Analysis: The Complete Guide for SREs

#ai #devops #opensource #kubernetes

4 min read

정상록

Mar 27

Arnis: OpenStreetMap + AWS 데이터로 실세계를 마인크래프트로 변환하는 Rust 오픈소스

#aws #gamedev #opensource #rust

1 min read

McRolly NWANGWU

Mar 27

Mistral Voxtral TTS — what open-source, on-device voice AI means for local human-AI interaction and the cloud TTS business model

#news #ai #machinelearning #opensource

10 min read

shrey vijayvargiya

Apr 29

Free Open-Source Documentation Creator Tool

#webdev #opensource #github #documentation

1 min read

Mar 26

GoFr — The Go Framework That Finally Made Backend Development Click for Me

#backend #go #microservices #opensource

3 min read

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Om Shree

Apr 24

DeepSeek Just Dropped V4. Here's What the Benchmarks Actually Tell You.

#ai #deepseek #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

WonderLab

Mar 28

pen Source Project of the Day (Part 23): PageLM - Open-Source AI Education Platform, Turning Learning Materials into Interactive Resources

#opensource #llm #ai #langchain

6 min read

Mar 26

41 worlds, 200 lines of Python: I built a protocol called Elastik for human-AI interaction

#ai #opensource #python #programming

4 min read

Mateusz Sadowski

Mar 27

How We Built a Framework That Turns LLM Output Into Interactive UIs

#webdev #ai #opensource #typescript

8 min read

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