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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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Global Day of Coderetreat 2024!

#romania #bucharest #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Lee Reilly for GitHub

Jan 24 '25

Showcase your open source project at SCALE 🐧 Pasadena, CA · March 6-9, 2025

#github #linux #opensource

2 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jan 30 '25

Build a Browser Use Agent with DeepSeek: A Step-by-Step Guide

#ai #deepseek #opensource #nlp

9 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jan 27 '25

A Step-by-Step Guide to Install DeepSeek-R1 Locally with Ollama, vLLM or Transformers

#ai #nlp #openai #opensource

10 min read

Luis Fernando De Pombo

Jan 30 '25

Built a ChatGPT-like app on Firestore with no backend/functions at ~1k LOC

#beginners #programming #opensource #flutter

1 min read

Jan 29 '25

Celebrating The Top Search-Tech Voices for 2025 🏆

#programming #devops #opensource #community

4 min read

Jan 30 '25

How to check if a component is a forward ref component in React?

#opensource #react #typescript #forwardref

2 min read

Sayed Ali Alkamel

Jan 28 '25

DeepSeek and the Power of Mixture of Experts (MoE)

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #deeplearning

6 min read

João Esperancinha

Dec 27 '24

Configurable Kong API Gateway with Micronaut Services in Kotlin — A very odd Yucca tribute concert

#opensource #kong #gateway #kotlin

32 min read

Jan 19 '25

Unlock Your Full Potential with Levoric Learn: An Open Source Platform for Developers 🚀

#webdev #opensource #developer #resources

3 min read

Abhiraj Adhikary

Dec 28 '24

📊 Dropbox User Sentiment Analysis using Airbyte 🪼 and Motherduck 🦆

#airbyte #opensource #datascience #motherduck

3 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Jan 30 '25

OSD700: Sprint 2

#opensource #ai #webdev #typescript

4 min read

Astrodevil

Jan 28 '25

5 Tools to Rapidly Launch Production-Grade AI/ML Apps in 2025🔥🏎️

#ai #machinelearning #devops #opensource

9 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Jan 29 '25

DocWire SDK's Latest Release: 2025.01.22

#news #cpp #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jan 29 '25

Using ARM-based GitHub Actions Runners for Workflows

#opensource #github #cicd #devops

2 min read

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