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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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Peter H. Boling

Feb 6

Hostile Takeover of RubyGems: My Thoughts

#opensource #ruby #rails #governance

4 min read

Daniel Nwaneri for The Foundation

Feb 6

Welcome to The Foundation: Preserving Developer Knowledge in Public

#discuss #community #opensource #ai

2 min read

Juan Denis

Feb 6

The Armored AI Agent You Can Actually Trust

#ai #opensource #python #security

3 min read

Freemen HOUNGBEDJI

Feb 6

🔥 Building Vigilo: A 15MB File Integrity Monitor That Outperforms OSSEC

#python #cybersecurity #opensource #devops

2 min read

Theo Bertol for Flowershow

Feb 6

Turn your Obsidian Vault into a beautiful website with Flowershow!

#obsidian #markdown #opensource #blogging

1 min read

Feb 6

Understanding Valyu: AI-Native Search, and a CLI Tool to Experiment Faster

#ai #rag #opensource

4 min read

Alistair

Feb 6

Building Clusterflick: A London Cinema Aggregator

#javascript #webdev #opensource #ai

1 min read

Feb 6

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 6

Part 2 | The Core Abstraction Model of Apache DolphinScheduler

#apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #programming #datascience

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Feb 6

Build apps for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini using MCP UI components from Flowbite

#mcp #ai #chatgpt #opensource

6 min read

Yuval

Feb 6

I Made My Claude AI Agents Invent Their Own Language. It Cut Token Costs by 63%.

#ai #productivity #opensource #programming

6 min read

Amad

Feb 6

Your AI agent just did 5 things. Can you prove it?

#ai #opensource #compliance #euaiact

3 min read

Feb 6

Como programar uma linguagem de programação? - Pituguês

#community #opensource #programming #python

11 min read

zhenghaoz

Feb 6

Building a Recommender System for GitHub Repositories

#ai #github #opensource

5 min read

Feb 5

SendGate — self-hosted open-source alternative to ZeroBounce / MillionVerifier

#emailvalidation #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

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