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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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Aniket Raj

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Project KARL AI

#ai #programming #opensource #kotlin

1 min read

Bharatkumar Subramanian

Jun 22

Building a Real-Time OpenAI Usage Monitor with Python: From $500 Bill Shock to Open Source Solution

#python #openai #monitoring #opensource

4 min read

Victoria Oludamilola Oyewole

Jun 22

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#beginners #tutorial #devops #opensource

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Jash Gro

Jun 22

🎧 Introducing OpenSpot — Your Gateway to Limitless Music 🎶

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Wynn TEO

Jun 22

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#tooling #privacy #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 22

Konsep dan Implementasi kelas di Bahasa Earl

#programming #opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Jun 22

EXSQL: An open-source SQL language extension for customizable querying

#showdev #programming #sql #opensource

1 min read

Cryptostheworldof

Jun 21

Lightweight Open-Source Bitcoin Mining Software with a Custom “Flash” Feature

#bitcoin #crypto #mining #opensource

1 min read

Zainab Imran for PatentScanAI

Jun 23

How to Find Prior Art for Inter Partes Review (IPR)

#ai #productivity #legaltech #opensource

5 min read

Jun 21

How to Estimate a Software Project When You're Still Figuring It Out

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Pierre “Bob” Stephan

Jun 21

Clean Up Your WordPress Debug Logs: Introducing the "Cron Error Silence" Plugin

#wordpress #plugin #debugging #opensource

2 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 21

How to Install and Run MonkeyOCR Locally

#ai #opensource #vision #productivity

7 min read

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Python Trending Weekly #107: GIL-Free Python Gets Official Approval

#python #ai #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Jun 21

Maintenance releases 0.5X.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#release #githubaction #opensource

2 min read

Tasib

Jun 21

Build a Smart Audio Book with Python (Beginner Friendly Project) 🎧📚

#python #audiobook #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Jun 21

Introducing MonomaOS — A Python-Based Command-Line OS Prototype

#python #opensource #cli #os

1 min read

Mohamed Radwan for AWS Community Builders

Jun 21

Enriching Keycloak with LinkedIn VanityName, Headline & Profile Picture via Custom SPI

#keycloak #opensource

3 min read

Beingana Jim Junior

Jun 20

A Guide to contributing to the Conveyor CI Driver Runtime

#opensource #programming #devops #tutorial

7 min read

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#showdev #opensource #pwa #react

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Estimating Time as a Developer: Why We Always Get It Wrong

#softwareengineering #webdev #opensource #devlive

3 min read

Wendy

Jun 20

No Tech Background, 4,000 Visits in 12 Hours — How I Built a Minimal Travel Platform with AI

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Veliswa_Boya 🇿🇦 for AWS

Jun 24

I built a city explorer using the Strands Agents SDK

#aws #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Jun 24

Quebrei a barreira do 'medo' de contribuir em open source. Criei uma ferramenta para te ajudar também.

#opensource #career #beginners

3 min read

Wanda

Jun 20

OpenCode, the Open-Source Claude Code Alternative: How It Elevates Your Terminal Workflow

#opensource #claudecode #terminal #tooling

5 min read

DASWU

Jun 20

JuiceFS 1.3 Beta 2 Integrates Apache Ranger for Fine-Grained Access Control

#opensource

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