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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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Nathan Tarbert for CopilotKit

Jun 18

AG-UI: Bringing Any Agent to the Frontend

#opensource #webdev #programming #ai

2 min read

Jun 18

i just made an encryption algorithm for some reason:D

#python #c #opensource #security

1 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jun 18

How to Install Fanar-1 9B Arabic-English LLM Locally?

#llm #opensource #fanar #ai

7 min read

Jun 18

Vue-Infinity: Visibility-Based Rendering for Vue

#vue #javascript #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Jun 18

iife() function in libs/langchain-openai source code.

#openai #javascript #langchain #opensource

3 min read

Lightning Developer

Jun 18

A Complete Guide to Setting Up and Testing Discord Bot Webhooks Locally

#webhook #webdev #devops #opensource

5 min read

Jun 18

Benefits of open source

#opensource #webdev #javascript #beginners

1 min read

Sevaki Rajasekar

Jun 18

A intro for Ente Photos!

#opensource #beginners

2 min read

Chen Debra

Jun 18

DSIP-91 Proposal: A New Solution to Simplify Workflow Debugging and Deployment — Join the Discussion!

#opensource #apachedolphinscheduler #github #programming

1 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Jun 18

Metabase 55: Data visualizer for dashboard cards, database connection routing, development instances, and more

#metabase #opensource #dataviz #analytics

6 min read

NocoBase

Jun 17

A No-Code Journey Inside SHIMANO

#nocode #opensource #nocobase #lowcode

5 min read

Juan Manuel Barea Martínez

Jun 16

The Open Source Beginner Contributor Guide

#opensource #codenewbie #community #career

1 min read

Jun 18

My Favorite Heygen Alternatives Ai Avatar Generator (First One Will Amaze You)

#ai #programming #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Jun 16

🚀 Help Shape the Future of Angular UI – Cerious Widgets is Looking for Contributors!

#angular #opensource #components #javascript

2 min read

Jun 16

🚀 Help Shape the Future of Angular UI – Cerious Widgets is Looking for Contributors!

#angular #opensource #components #javascript

2 min read

Nicholas-Amsler

Jun 17

🧠 How I Built LungIQ: A Weekend Project to Train Better Respiratory Clinicians

#react #opensource #webdev #programming

2 min read

Jun 16

Assessing Security Risks of Open Source Repos

#security #opensource

2 min read

Mohammad Anzawi

Jun 15

Choosing the Right Workflow Engine for Business Approval Systems

#workfkow #programming #csharp #opensource

3 min read

Josiah

Jun 15

New way to do graphics. X E.

#discuss #programming #gpu #opensource

2 min read

Jun 15

Ambient lighting - DIY

#esp32 #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jun 15

GSoC 2025 – Week 2: Comparator and Pull Resistor Implementation

#gsoc2025 #opensource #circuitverse

2 min read

member_43440929

Jun 14

🚀 Just Launched: InkSpire – A Smart Blogging Platform for Developers

#webdev #ai #react #opensource

1 min read

tsmztech

Jun 14

Salesforce MCP Server: Integrate AI with Salesforce Using Natural Language

#salesforce #ai #opensource #mcp

3 min read

Abdul Rehman Khan

Jun 17

Analytics Tools for Developers That Go Beyond Google (2025 Guide)

#analytics #developers #webdev #opensource

2 min read

xhunmon

Jun 14

AttributeStyle Custom Adapter Development Guide: From Theory to Practice

#harmonyosnext #opensource

3 min read

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