Skip to content

Forem

Open Source

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

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

Cover image for How I Applied Cognitive Psychology to Give AI Agents Real Memory — NEXO Brain v2.0

WAzion

Mar 23

How I Applied Cognitive Psychology to Give AI Agents Real Memory — NEXO Brain v2.0

#ai #opensource #python #tutorial

13 min read

Dinesh G

Feb 17

ArrayList and LinkedList

#programming #java #react #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for MACP Multi-Agent Cognition Protocol – Collaborative cognition for AI agents

Dawid M.

Mar 9

MACP Multi-Agent Cognition Protocol – Collaborative cognition for AI agents

#news #agents #ai #opensource

1 min read

Francisco López

Feb 16

Your Phone Already Has the Hardware to Prove a Photo Is Real. Nothing Uses It.

#opensource #reactnative #mobile #security

3 min read

Cover image for Kafka vs. RabbitMQ: The Post Office vs. The Time Machine

Mar 22

Kafka vs. RabbitMQ: The Post Office vs. The Time Machine

#discuss #opensource #api #backend

2 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 11

I scanned my Gmail and found $340/mo in subscriptions I completely forgot about

#python #opensource #productivity #privacy

2 min read

Cover image for Our AI Tutor Never Forgets Your Mistakes - Here's How We Built the Memory

Mar 22

Our AI Tutor Never Forgets Your Mistakes - Here's How We Built the Memory

#ai #programming #opensource #agentaichallenge

4 min read

Wass B.

Feb 16

Multi Programming Languages Projects Made Easy - I Built Mangle.dev

#opensource #programming #tooling #api

1 min read

Cover image for Pawz Engram biologically-inspired memory architecture for persistent AI agents

Gotham64

Mar 2

Pawz Engram biologically-inspired memory architecture for persistent AI agents

#ai #agents #memory #opensource

3 min read

Mar 22

Why We Deleted Every .env File — And What Replaced Them

#security #devops #macos #opensource

7 min read

Cover image for Docs-as-Code: Why Documentation Should Live With Your Code

Mar 22

Docs-as-Code: Why Documentation Should Live With Your Code

#documentation #softwareengineering #devops #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for Filing KickJS Framework Issues as You Build — A Living Bug Tracker That Improves Your Tools

Orinda Felix Ochieng

Mar 22

Filing KickJS Framework Issues as You Build — A Living Bug Tracker That Improves Your Tools

#kickjs #node #opensource

10 min read

Mar 11

What Google DeepMind Gets Right About Agent Delegation — And What SatGate Already Built

#ai #security #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Cover image for Conditions, Phases, and Declarative Phase Rules in Kubernetes Operators

Debdut Chakraborty for Rocket.Chat

Feb 13

Conditions, Phases, and Declarative Phase Rules in Kubernetes Operators

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

8 min read

Mack

Feb 16

I Built a Recipe Extractor Because I'm Tired of Reading Life Stories Before Getting the Ingredients

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.