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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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Benedetto Proietti for Janea Systems

Jul 9 '25

JECQ: Smart, Open-Source Compression for FAISS Users—6x Compression Ratio, 85% Accuracy

#opensource #ai #vectordatabase #machinelearning

6 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Jul 8 '25

Spring Batch Clustering With Zero Messaging: Introducing spring-batch-db-cluster-partitioning (v1.0.0)

#springboot #springbatch #java #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo

Jul 9 '25

Make Your Machine Talk: Piper TTS Offline

#ai #opensource #piper #tts

3 min read

RisingWave Labs

Jul 8 '25

What’s New in RisingWave v2.4: Event Stream Processing Platform Updates

#news #rust #opensource #learning

4 min read

SteamPixel

Jul 7 '25

Visual Logic Without Code - Can This Change the Way We Build Flow-Based Systems?

#nocode #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Jul 7 '25

Building WCAG-Compliant Flutter Components: Automating Contrast Calculations

#flutter #a11y #wcag #opensource

4 min read

Jul 7 '25

Hux UI: A Flutter component library that actually solves your frontend problems

#flutter #ui #widget #opensource

3 min read

BB6

Jul 7 '25

I built a Python tool that explains errors like you’re 5 (English + Russian, OSS)

#ai #python #opensource #learning

1 min read

Jul 6 '25

Racing Game with Python + Pygame 🚗

#python #gamedev #sharepoint #opensource

2 min read

Pierre Brunelle

Jul 7 '25

Stop Gluing Data Infrastructure Tools: Build Multimodal AI Workloads and Application with One Declarative Python SDK

#python #multimodal #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

Valery Zinchenko for denshya

Jul 6 '25

TamaJs Core - No Root Components

#showdev #webdev #frontend #opensource

2 min read

yongsheng

Jul 6 '25

🚀 hevue-img-preview: A Lightweight & Powerful Vue Image Preview Plugin for Web & Mobile

#webdev #vue #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Muhammed Shafin P

Jul 6 '25

NeuroShellOS Sample 1 – A Conceptual Application

#ai #opensource #neuroshellos #linux

1 min read

kako-jun

Jul 6 '25

Introducing Diffx: A Rust-Based AI Diff Tool That Understands Structure

#rust #ai #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Shahid Foy

Jul 6 '25

🚨 Build Better Alerts: Meet N1netails – A Lightweight, Self-Hosted Alerting System

#opensource #devops #selfhosted #alerting

2 min read

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