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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 13

A Practical Guide to Getting Started with Outreachy: From Application to Contributions

#beginners #career #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Octavian Cristea

Apr 13

I Placed #2 in a Prediction Market Challenge Using Autoresearch

#python #autoresearch #ai #opensource

6 min read

Apr 14

I Built 10 Free PDF Tools That Run Entirely in Your Browser

#javascript #webdev #pdf #opensource

2 min read

Valentin

Apr 13

Cao, take and share easily your toolbox !

#programming #productivity #devops #opensource

2 min read

ToolsOfWeb Admin

Apr 14

10+ Free Privacy-First Web Tools for Developers & Creators

#webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Apr 13

I built LoreData: a mock data generator with characters from Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and other universes.

#opensource #typescript #node #webdev

3 min read

Apr 13

I built a CLI tool that explains Java stack traces and suggests fixes

#java #opensource #cli #devtools

1 min read

Marcos Marx for GrowthX.ai

Apr 13

Output.ai is live 🎉🚀

#typescript #ai #opensource #claude

2 min read

Apr 15

What CSA, SANS, and OWASP Just Told Every CISO About Runtime Agent Security

#security #ai #opensource #owasp

4 min read

Apr 13

How I Got Enterprise-Grade DAST for Free in GitHub Actions (And Why Vanilla ZAP Finds 0 API Endpoints)

#security #devops #github #opensource

8 min read

Jerome Thayananthajothy

Apr 18

I Built a Simple CLI to Check Plagiarism and AI-Generated Text (Locally)

#academic #ai #python #opensource

1 min read

Dhruv Sood

Apr 13

Building a Voice-Controlled Local AI Agent (End-to-End)

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

2 min read

Apr 13

How WebAssembly Powers Free Browser Tools With No Login

#nologin #webdev #browser #opensource

7 min read

Apr 13

Anne Ndungu Portfolio

#beginners #career #devjournal #opensource

3 min read

Midas126

Apr 13

Building Your Own "Google Maps for Codebases": A Practical Guide to Codebase Q&A with AI

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

5 min read

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