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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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Corbin Crutchley for Playful Programming

Feb 9

Merging the "This Is" Community into "Playful Programming"

#news #community #opensource

6 min read

Feb 4

What happens if someone breaks the rules?

#techtalks #community #leadership #opensource

9 min read

Made Büro

Mar 6

How to optimize Next.js project for AI search engines

#ai #nextjs #node #opensource

3 min read

Mar 6

mockapi-local: Get a Full REST API From a JSON Schema in One Command

#node #opensource #webdev #javascript

3 min read

Muhammad Arslan

Mar 6

What's New in HazelJS Data: PipelineBuilder, PII Safety, and Advanced Quality

#showdev #data #javascript #opensource

5 min read

HorusGod

Mar 6

I Built CloudDesktop — Turn Any Linux VPS Into a Browser-Based Desktop (Free & Open Source)

#opensource #linux #selfhosted #webdev

2 min read

WonderLab

Mar 6

OpenClaw Deep Dive (6): Node Host, Canvas, and Sub-Agents

#ai #openclaw #opensource #agents

7 min read

Paul Desai

Mar 6

MirrorDNA: Personal AI Infrastructure on Consumer Hardware

#ai #infrastructure #opensource #systems

2 min read

Mar 6

Render LaTeX, Math & Chemistry in React, React Native, Flutter — One Package

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Alexander Schneider

Mar 6

adanos-cli: Stock & Crypto Sentiment Straight From Your Terminal

#python #cli #finance #opensource

4 min read

Boka AI

Feb 4

Why Your Side Project Needs a README Before Code

#productivity #beginners #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

rdbhvr-001

Jan 31

Bspwm is powerful - but it's Documentation is a Mess. So I Built a Wiki.

#linux #opensource #documentation #productivity

2 min read

Jame Leo

Feb 4

Decrypting Morse Code in the Browser: How I built a privacy-first audio decoder

#showdev #webdev #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

benngaihk

Feb 13

I Built a Notion-like Editor for Vue 3 with AI, 5 Themes, and Real-time Collaboration — It's 100% Free

#vue #javascript #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Thousand Miles AI

Mar 6

How DeepSeek R1 Shocked the World (And Why It Matters to You)

#ai #opensource #technology

9 min read

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