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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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tomdach

Jul 6

I built a free retro game launcher to organise my collection

#gamedev #opensource #webdev #ai

1 min read

abdullah bin aqeel

Jul 6

Local-First RAG Pipeline in Pure Python

#ai #machinelearning #rag #opensource

3 min read

Jul 6

Why Developers Don't Read READMEs

#github #opensource #productivity #documentation

4 min read

Nabil hassan mohamed ali

Jul 6

Free Open-Source Alternative to Paid Mac Disk Analyzers (BloomDisk)

#showdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Jul 6

My GSoC Experience at @webpack: The Mid-Term Update

#javascript #learning #opensource #webdev

4 min read

llimage

Jul 6

FROST 的治理哲学：为什么每个 Agent 系统都需要一部宪法

#python #agents #ai #opensource

2 min read

kandz

Jul 6

I built a free, client-side AI API Cost Calculator. Here is the math. published: true

#webdev #javascript #opensource #ai

2 min read

Jul 6

"Building SENTINEL: An Open-Source AI Conflict Prediction System"

#ai #machinelearning #security #opensource

4 min read

fanioz

Jul 6

Getting Started with OpenOPC: Build an AI-Native One-Person Company

#ai #agents #python #opensource

6 min read

MonoBuild Studio

Jul 6

Built a Conventional Commits CLI with free AI tools (zero cost)

#python #git #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jul 6

Building an Android App with Kotlin, Retrofit, and Coroutines: A Practical Guide2

#android #opensource #monero #kotlin

4 min read

Jul 6

Building an Android App with Kotlin, Retrofit, and Coroutines: A Practical Guide

#android #kotlin #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

Mininglamp

Jul 6

From Solo Agents to Team Orchestration: Making Multiple AI Agents Actually Work Together

#ai #agents #orchestration #opensource

4 min read

Jul 6

Whisper transcribes spoken Hindi numbers as words, not digits. So I made a library to convert them back.

#python #nlp #opensource #ai

5 min read

Ali Hamza

Jul 6

Day 100 of Learning MERN Stack

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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