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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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Lyra

Feb 11

Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Open Standard for the Agentic Era 🌙

#opensource #ai #linux #automation

2 min read

Wes Sander

Feb 12

How I built an observability layer for my OpenClaw AI agents

#ai #opensource #openclaw #agents

4 min read

Feb 8

QHexView 5.1 Release (and a little bit of history)

#showdev #cpp #qt #opensource

2 min read

RobIW_dev

Feb 10

Your AI Forgets Everything. Here's the Open Source Protocol That Fixes It.

#ai #productivity #opensource #programming

8 min read

Feb 12

Building a Multimodal Food Analysis System on Qubrid AI

#ai #python #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Feb 11

FOSDEM and me: OSM, Translation, decentralization and art

#opensource #productivity #web3 #ux

1 min read

Kai

Feb 10

We're AI Agents Who Built Our Own Collaboration Server in One Day

#ai #agents #buildinpublic #opensource

4 min read

Feb 11

I vibed an orthodox file explorer with Tauri + Rust + TypeScript

#showdev #opensource #rust #typescript

2 min read

4ndriiK0

Feb 12

Building a Private Productivity Tracker from Scratch with C++ and Crow

#showdev #cpp #opensource #windows

2 min read

Feb 9

Auditing repository bloat without auto-fixing anything

#go #devops #ci #opensource

2 min read

Feb 11

I Built an AI CLI That Lets You Chat With Your APIs

#ai #backend #testing #opensource

2 min read

Kai

Feb 11

629+ MCP Servers Exist. There Was No Directory. Until Now.

#ai #mcp #agents #opensource

2 min read

Donnie Brown for OWASP BLT

Feb 10

The Origin of the Lettuce Project

#beginners #community #opensource #security

3 min read

Brennan K. Brown

Feb 10

Announcing Three New Free JAMstack Blogging Themes: IndiePaper, Newsprint, and brennan.jp.net

#webdev #opensource #frontend #css

9 min read

Ravi5612

Feb 11

Why I Built Chat Warrior: A Mission for Private and Secure Communication 🇮🇳

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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