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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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Parsun kumar Patel

Jun 15

I Built Calcify — All Calculators in One Place

#webdev #productivity #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jun 14

[Hands-on] Guide to Locally Testing Athenz Before Opening a PR

#athenz #testing #opensource

5 min read

Jun 14

AR4 Mark 5: This Open-Source 6-Axis Robot Arm Is Finally Done

#robotics #robotarm #opensource #3dprinting

2 min read

Jun 14

Hillock: A brain-inspired, CPU-bound memory gate for local LLMs

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Jun 15

How I Built a Zero-Dependency Token Compressor for AI Coding Agents (During My High School Exams)

#ai #javascript #node #opensource

4 min read

Evert

Jun 15

Google's Open Knowledge Format is just Markdown in folders (and that's the point)

#ai #markdown #opensource #agents

3 min read

Darshit Khandelwal

Jun 14

Starting My LFX Mentorship Journey: Building Contributor Identity Verification for Hiero

#blockchain #web3 #opensource #programming

2 min read

Jun 14

Why I'm building a Form spree alternative (and what $27-forever gets you)

#showdev #webdev #opensource #buildinpublic

2 min read

אחיה כהן

Jun 14

My safety guard protected 2 tools and trusted the other 20

#security #ai #javascript #opensource

5 min read

argustek

Jun 14

I built an AI coding assistant with 4 agents that review each other's work

#ai #opensource #go #code

4 min read

Werner Kasselman

Jun 14

Going Remote, Without Going Reckless: Multi-LLM Orchestration and the New Front Door in llm-cli-gateway 2.9.0

#ai #llm #cli #opensource

14 min read

Jun 15

Introducing EditCash: Free Resources for Developers

#showdev #resources #opensource #developer

1 min read

Werner Kasselman

Jun 14

Hardening API Scan Boundaries in skill-scanner, with sqry as the Review Map

#security #python #ai #opensource

10 min read

Jun 14

Building a Production-Grade MCP Memory Server: Lessons from MindCore

#mcp #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

Oluwajuwon Omotayo

Jun 14

I Found a Gap in Microsoft's AI Governance Toolkit. So I Built a Policy Pack to Fill It.

#opensource #ai #python #africa

6 min read

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