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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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#programming #beginners #python #opensource

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GG-HRN

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#webdev #programming #pwa #opensource

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Federico Moretti

Sep 21

How to Get The GIMP Working With macOS Tahoe (and What Happened)

#news #tutorial #productivity #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 22

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#ai #opensource #productivity #tooling

3 min read

Kushagra Srivastava

Sep 21

My Google Summer of Code Journey: Part 3

#programming #opensource #freebsd #kernel

11 min read

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GG-HRN

Sep 21

Hello Community! A Self-Taught Developer and Volunteer Here to Connect

#webdev #programming #pwa #opensource

1 min read

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Kachi

Sep 20

Apache Kafka & Amazon MSK: The Beating Heart of Real-Time Data

#dataengineering #architecture #opensource #aws

4 min read

Sep 20

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#opensource #typescript #beginners #nextjs

1 min read

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KTSHACX

Sep 20

🚀 Building Zeno – My Lightweight, Plugin-First Markdown Blog Framework

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Oct 10

LatamBoard: Building Open, Transparent AI Evaluation for Latin America

#ai #python #latam #opensource

2 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

Navigating RAG System Architecture: Trade-offs and Best Practices for Scalable, Reliable AI Applications

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

5 min read

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How to Rank at Scale: Engineering Search Systems for Millions of Users

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

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Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

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#ai #machinelearning #devtools #opensource

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Training a Nematode with Quantum Reinforcement Learning

#reinforcementlearning #quantumcomputing #machinelearning #opensource

8 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

Mastering Test Topic Agents: Advanced Content Planning Strategies for the Technical Web

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

4 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Sep 20

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Opportunity, Risk, and Responsible Innovation

#ai #machinelearning #devtools #opensource

6 min read

good News

Sep 20

Asbestlint: Risks, Detection, and the Art

#ai #opensource #learning #node

5 min read

TadaTools

Sep 20

Number Remover – Remove Numbers from Text

#tools #productivity #seo #opensource

1 min read

Sep 20

codeSearch function in Codebuff codebase.

#opensource #codesearch #codebuff #vscode

3 min read

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Mr Punk da Silva

Sep 24

O Código Aberto e a Arquitetura da Ideia: Uma Análise dos Movimentos Open Source e Software Livre

#discuss #programming #opensource #braziliandevs

25 min read

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momina raheel (Moona)

Sep 20

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#programming #beginners #python #opensource

2 min read

Sep 20

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#opensource #beginners #tutorial

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Volker Schukai for schukai GmbH

Sep 24

Monster Select now supports paginated dropdowns – fully reactive, fully open source

#javascript #webdev #opensource #ux

2 min read

TadaTools

Sep 20

Text Joiner – Join Texts with Delimiter

#tools #productivity #seo #opensource

1 min read

Sep 20

Lets build a full-stack LLM app with Autonomk

#ai #java #webdev #opensource

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