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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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ELABBASSI Hicham

Oct 3

🏈⚽🏀 Hacktoberfest, from Side Project to Pro Sports: Contribute to a Library Used by NBA, NFL & Premier League Coaches

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #reactnative

2 min read

Alejandro Navas

Oct 4

wyr: Typesafe Dependency Injection for TypeScript (and why I built it)

#architecture #opensource #typescript #tooling

4 min read

Katsu

Oct 4

MCP Server for Accessing Official Language Docs from AI Editors

#mcp #opensource #cursor #docker

4 min read

Arvind Sundara Rajan

Oct 4

Decoding Hearts: AI-Powered ECG Analysis for Silent Diseases

#datascience #machinelearning #healthtech #opensource

2 min read

Syed Ali

Oct 4

Threat Intelligence Feeds Are Broken — And We’re Fixing the Trust Problem No One Talks About

#threatintelligence #cybersecurity #opensource #blockchain

3 min read

ElshadHu

Oct 3

How I Made My First Successful Hacktoberfest Pull Request

#github #opensource #beginners #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Cristina Rodriguez

Oct 4

Building SazónBot: A Journey from Family Recipes to AI Chatbot

#nextjs #ai #agentai #opensource

3 min read

Suhani Pasricha 23BCE2235

Oct 4

I Made an AI Document Analyzer So You Don’t Have To (But You’ll Probably Want To)

#showdev #python #opensource #ai

3 min read

Oct 4

Why GitHub to AI Ingester Exists: The Repository Verification Gap

#github #ai #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Jon Davis

Oct 3

C# (Maybe) Joins the Motia Family: Building Multi-Language Workflows with .NET 9

#showdev #opensource #dotnet #csharp

7 min read

Kyle Homen

Oct 3

OSD600 Lab 4

#cpp #cli #opensource

4 min read

睿廷洪

Oct 4

I built a Chrome extension that lets you automatically solve CAPTCHAs with Google Gemini — and it’s totally FREE!

#showdev #opensource #automation #gemini

1 min read

Oct 4

Adding TOML Config Support and Reviewing PRs

#git #opensource #programming #webdev

2 min read

Gunner Andersen

Oct 3

Tired of Rewriting Web3 Integrations? Help us grow M3S, the New Modular Open-Source Standard

#programming #web3 #blockchain #opensource

3 min read

Oct 3

How to get and use free PVS-Studio license. Part 3: working with report and warnings

#freelicense #programming #opensource #osu

9 min read

Dmitrii

Oct 3

I'm Building an AI to Predict Stocks!

#ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Winnie

Oct 3

Open Source Contribution

#opensource #hacktoberfest #onlydust #web3

3 min read

Oct 3

Just made a new Clicker game

#opensource

1 min read

terryncew

Oct 2

Small receipts. Big accountability. A tiny JSON that makes AI runs legible.

#devops #opensource #machinelearning #ai

1 min read

Jinglei Ren for WellDefined.AI

Oct 2

Tigs: Never Lose That AI Context Again – Store Your LLM Chats in Git

#git #ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Oct 3

Day 23 of My 90 Days Python Series – Number System Converter

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Justin E. Samuels for RenderATL

Oct 1

The Open Source World Is About to Get a Surprise 👀

#hacktoberfest #opensource #announcements #programming

1 min read

Oct 2

Building an Open-Source QMS with Little Web Development Experience

#discuss #opensource #devjournal #beginners

3 min read

Oct 3

Flag namespace in Opencode codebase.

#truthy #opensource

2 min read

Oct 2

Maintaining Arch Linux AUR Packages: Updates for python-nspektr and rapidyaml

#archlinux #opensource #cpp #python

2 min read

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