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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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Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 5: Monitoring, Observability, and Health Checks

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

h-weavium

Aug 3

I've built a LLM pre-processing toolbox and would love to hear your feedback

#discuss #llm #opensource #tools

1 min read

Anuj Dubey

Aug 3

🚀 Just Shipped: Client Portal for V1‑ERP

#buildinpublic #webdev #erp #opensource

1 min read

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Aug 3

Trip Helper App for Rocket.Chat 🚀 - GSoC 2025 Final Report

#opensource #rocketchat #webdev #ai

25 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination, Part 2: How Database-Backed Partitioning Works

#springbatch #java #cloudnative #opensource

2 min read

Janardhan Chejarla

Aug 3

Distributed Spring Batch Coordination – Part 3: Fault Tolerance and Node Recovery

#springbatch #java #opensource #cloudnative

2 min read

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Aug 26

So You Want to Build an Open Source Alternative to ChatGPT for Teams

#chatgpt #opensource #ai #codenewbie

6 min read

NovaHannes

Aug 7

Introducing ARTE: Building an Open Round Table for Ethical AI

#opensource #ai #ethics #python

2 min read

Anzize - Nexus Studio

Aug 3

J'ai créé ILN : arrêtez d'apprendre 10 langages, maîtrisez-en UN qui les absorbe tous

#opensource #programmation #innovation #français

2 min read

Aug 2

Looking for passionate volunteer contributors

#programming #softwaredevelopment #opensource #tooling

1 min read

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Aug 2

🚀 Stop Manually Setting Up Projects, Try create-launcher CLI

#npm #opensource #typescript #webdev

2 min read

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PARTHIB KUMAR DEB

Aug 3

Linus revolutionizes ☀️

#programming #linux #ubuntu #opensource

6 min read

Azhan J.

Aug 2

How AI-Powered Project Management Tools with Client Portals Made Me Actually Enjoy Client Work

#opensource #projectmanagement #clientsuccess

2 min read

IMprojtech

Aug 2

I built NotaMy: a simple, terminal-based note manager in C for Linux

#opensource #linux #terminal #c

2 min read

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brovatten

Aug 2

CodeBoarding: Interactive Diagrams of Code

#ai #python #programming #opensource

2 min read

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Aug 2

Mastering DOM Performance & Security

#webdev #programming #html #opensource

1 min read

Aug 2

Build a Professional Harvard-Style Academic CV with This Open Source Jekyll Theme

#jekyll #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

Irfan Ludvi Astanto

Aug 2

Earl bahasa pemrograman favoritku

#earl #programming #opensource #devjournal

1 min read

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Aug 2

git-secure: Add authentication prompts before running sensitive Git commands)

#git #cybersecurity #opensource #github

1 min read

Aug 1

The System You Cannot Install: Dismantling Reality from Code That Was Never Written

#linux #privacy #selfhosted #opensource

2 min read

Bob Singor

Aug 15

How I Got to #1 on HN (Hacker News) and 500+ ⭐️ GitHub Stars in 24 Hours

#showdev #opensource #github

3 min read

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Tope Taiwo

Aug 2

From Silence to Sound: Fixing Audio on Ubuntu Linux on my Samsung Galaxy Book

#linux #ubuntu #opensource #samsung

2 min read

Aug 1

Building MCP one: A Unified Hub for Model Context Protocol Servers

#ai #mcp #opensource #python

5 min read

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Jayant Harilela

Aug 1

Unlocking the Future: Building Conversational AI Agents with Persistent Memory

#cognee #aiagents #frameworks #opensource

15 min read

Agustin V. Startari

Aug 1

How Legal Language Loses Responsibility When It Becomes Executable

#discuss #ai #react #opensource

3 min read

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