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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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Sriram Ramkrishna

Feb 3 '25

Linux App Summit 2025 CfP is Open!

#opensource #linux #qt #gtk

2 min read

Dec 30 '24

AI + Data Weekly 169 for 23 December 2024

#opensource #ai #genai #rag

3 min read

Feb 2 '25

Citrusworx is a software factory but in a good way

#webdev #opensource #startup

3 min read

Vivesh

Feb 2 '25

Data Governance Plan for Cloud-Based Projects

#data #cloud #devops #opensource

2 min read

Prathamesh Devadiga

Feb 1 '25

Open-Source LLMs Deserve Code, Not Prompts! (DSPy, Voila!)

#rag #ai #opensource #python

3 min read

Feb 2 '25

The Tools and APIs That Made My GeoGuessr 🌍 Project Possible

#webdev #react #opensource #gamedev

4 min read

Jan 8 '25

7 steps to building scalable Backend from scratch

#backend #programming #beginners #opensource

13 min read

Madza

Mar 25 '25

9 Open-Source AI Projects You Will be Amazed to Discover 🔥🚀

#opensource #github #ai #productivity

5 min read

Rizèl Scarlett

Jan 28 '25

What Text Area Popovers Taught Me About Browser APIs

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Feb 1 '25

Hiden Storage Local dan Local-Lvm on Proxmox

#proxmox #virtualmachine #serverless #opensource

1 min read

Feb 1 '25

I made Swagger Chatbot (every backend servers also can do it)

#swagger #openai #opensource #ai

4 min read

Hema

Feb 1 '25

Mastering GitHub

#github #versioncontrol #opensource #collaboration

3 min read

Hasan

Feb 1 '25

Deepseek R1 Locally | Top 5 Free Open-Source Tools | Ollama | Automation | RAG

#ai #webdev #opensource #deepseek

1 min read

xphract

Feb 1 '25

📩 Your Inbox is NOT a Reading List – Here’s a Smarter Way to Read Newsletters! 🚀

#productivity #opensource #newsletter #rss

1 min read

Bob Tordella for AWS Community Builders

Jan 31 '25

Query AWS CloudTrail Logs Locally with SQL

#aws #security #opensource #tailpipe

3 min read

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