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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.

submission guidelines

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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Jul 12

Self-hosting Qdrant the easy way

#ai #opensource #cloud #devops

4 min read

Mak Sò

Jul 13

🧠 How AI Agents Learned to Agree Through Structured Debate

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

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Jul 13

GSoC Week 5: Markdown broke, CI/CD woke

#opensource #flutter #dart

4 min read

Imran Khan

Jul 13

Looking for Hackathon Squad

#hackathon #programming #opensource #career

1 min read

SiddhaDo

Jul 13

BitChat: Offline Bluetooth Mesh Messaging Without SIM, Wi-Fi or Servers

#bluetooth #meshnetwork #privacy #opensource

2 min read

Jul 13

🔖 Building a Bookmark Manager with AI Integration: My Journey with Model Context Protocol

#mcp #typescript #bookmarkmanager #opensource

4 min read

ZIPPO

Jul 13

Looking for a full-stack Django project idea that’s actually useful, and looks amazing in your portfolio?

#webdev #javascript #opensource #django

1 min read

Gruhesh Sri Sai Karthik Kurra

Jul 13

Building a GAN from Scratch: My Journey into Generative AI 🤖

#machinelearning #deeplearning #gan #opensource

3 min read

Jul 13

🚀 LookAtni File Markers — Invisible Markers to Structure Your Files Like Magic

#ai #devops #vscode #opensource