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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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Yuri for Supabase

Jul 15

Stripe-To-Postgres Sync Engine as standalone Library

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Jul 13

GSoC Week 6: Deep Diving into the Interactive Book Issue

#opensource #flutter #dart

3 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Jul 13

Natural Language Processing from Basics to Advanced: The Complete Guide for Innovators

#ai #devtools #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Jul 13

Mastering Regex in NLP: From Tokenization to Advanced Pattern Mining

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

6 min read

tsuruko

Jul 13

[Python] Smarter Conditions, Still No Ifs—Triggon Just Got Better

#python #opensource #automation #programming

2 min read

Pavel

Jul 2

I Got Tired of Build Tools, So I Built a JS Framework for Instant UI Prototyping

#javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 23

Earl dan Erlang: Dua Bahasa, Dua Dunia

#programming #opensource #devjournal #indonesia

2 min read

Mak Sò

Jul 13

🧠 How AI Agents Learned to Agree Through Structured Debate

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

8 min read

Jun 9

🧬 Symbiotic Key — Discovery of a Metalinguistic Prompting Engine

#opensource #ai #promptengineering #github

2 min read

Jul 13

GSoC Week 5: Markdown broke, CI/CD woke

#opensource #flutter #dart

4 min read

Jul 13

Why do you contribute to Open Source? What is your motivation?

#opensource #beginners #programming #career

2 min read

Imran Khan

Jul 13

Looking for Hackathon Squad

#hackathon #programming #opensource #career

1 min read

Jul 13

Under the Hood: Chronos Vault's Triple-Chain Defense System Explained

#blockchain #web3 #security #opensource

5 min read

Jun 9

"Krishi Rakshak: Lightweight EfficientNet-Based Crop Disease Classifier"

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #agritech

1 min read

ZIPPO

Jul 13

Looking for a full-stack Django project idea that’s actually useful, and looks amazing in your portfolio?

#webdev #javascript #opensource #django

1 min read

Cassidy Williams

Jul 25

Tools using tools

#ai #opensource

2 min read

Rafa Mori

Jul 13

🚀 LookAtni File Markers — Invisible Markers to Structure Your Files Like Magic

#ai #devops #vscode #opensource

1 min read

Rafa Mori

Jul 13

🚀 LookAtni File Markers — Marcadores invisíveis para estruturar seus arquivos como mágica

#ai #devops #vscode #opensource

2 min read

Jun 22

Day 1 of My Spring Boot Multitenancy Starter: Contexts, Filters, and Auto-Config

#java #springboot #multitenancy #opensource

1 min read

Adrian Rubio-Punal

Jun 11

I'm 13 and I Built an AI PDF Reader

#ai #opensource #buildinpublic #programming

1 min read

Randall

Jul 12

How I Host a Bot in 45,000 Discord Servers For Free

#discord #javascript #opensource #programming

9 min read

Jul 12

Contributing to PyPI

#python #opensource #programming

1 min read

Stephen Adebayo

Jul 12

🚀 Integrating Video Calls in React Native with Jitsi Meet

#webdev #javascript #reactnative #opensource

1 min read

Jul 12

Enhanced Paperless-NGX with Paddle OCR + LLM Pipeline

#python #docker #llm #opensource

3 min read

Jul 12

My Journey into System Design: A Back-End Developer's Exploration

#systemdesign #python #opensource #beginners

4 min read

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