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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 21

OmniVoice: Open-Source TTS with 600+ Languages and Zero-Shot Voice Cloning

#ai #machinelearning #nlp #opensource

4 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 21

Bump your VERSION file

#cicd #go #opensource #programming

5 min read

Paul Stamp

Apr 18

ServiceKit V2 — The Async Service Locator for Unity

#showdev #architecture #gamedev #opensource

3 min read

Mar 17

The Agentic OS Era: How NVIDIA NemoClaw is Taming the Wild West of OpenClaw

#news #agents #ai #opensource

4 min read

MCerqua

Mar 17

OpenVoiceUI -AI-Voice Agent App Generates Live Canvas Pages Using OpenClaw

#agents #ai #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 21

Kiwi-chan's Birch Log Blues & The Importance of Precise Footwork

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 19

The Philosophy of Digital Evolution: When Software Exhibits Life-Like Properties

#ai #philosophy #opensource #evolution

12 min read

Apr 20

I Built a Cookie-Free Visitor Analytics Platform — Here's What I Learned

#analytics #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Apr 20

I Built & Published My First npm Package: dep-inspector-cli

#opensource #node #devtools #typescript

3 min read

Pavanipriya Sajja

Apr 20

Challenge: 3 Making UX Work Understandable to Engineers

#opensource #machinelearning #ux #devex

7 min read

caraxesthebloodwyrm02

Mar 17

Your Python API Calls Will Fail. Here's How to Handle It.

#python #api #resilience #opensource

4 min read

Mar 22

I built a Go library to solve a problem Python solved in 2002

#go #networking #opensource #gamedev

6 min read

Hisa Araki

Apr 10

Why I built a pixel-perfect report engine with Rust and Skia

#rust #skia #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Mar 18

Personal Finance

#docker #opensource #productivity #tooling

6 min read

Mar 17

I Built an AI-Powered Subscription Dashboard in Kotlin with RevenueCat's Charts API

#kotlin #opensource #saas #ai

7 min read

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