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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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Madhurima Rawat

Mar 23 '25

🧠 Deep Dive into the Leading AI Models 🤖

#opensource #openai #beginners #ai

6 min read

Feb 17 '25

Open Source Funding for Nonprofits: A New Era of Innovation and Impact

#opensourcecapitalism #opensource #nonprofits #fundingmethods

2 min read

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Rashid Yousufzai

Mar 22 '25

The Open-Source AI Sidekick You Didn’t Know You Needed: RAGFlow 🚀

#ai #opensource #openai #python

2 min read

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Feb 16 '25

RustyNum Follow-Up: Fresh Insights and Ongoing Development

#rust #python #opensource #datascience

5 min read

Feb 16 '25

Unlocking the Power of Language Models: A Deep Dive into LangChain 🤖💻

#langchain #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Feb 16 '25

Open Source Funding for New Developers: Opportunities and Pathways

#blockchain #opensource #fundingopportunities #newdevelopers

2 min read

Feb 16 '25

Open Source Funding: A New Era of Opportunities

#opensourcecapitalism #opensource #funding #innovation

2 min read

Feb 16 '25

Supporting the Backbone of Innovation: Open Source Developer Support Programs

#compensatedevelopers #opensource #developersupport #fundingprograms

2 min read

Feb 16 '25

Navigating Open Source Funding Opportunities

#blockchain #opensource #fundingmodels #sustainability

2 min read

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Grant Singleton

Feb 17 '25

I Built a TypeScript SDK for Batch Processing LLM Calls Across Model Providers

#opensource #openai #typescript #ai

2 min read

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cz

Mar 22 '25

Opensource Pose Detection Demo

#opensource #posedetector #nextjs

3 min read

Mar 4 '25

Embracing the Future: India's Pioneering Journey in Open Source Development

#india #opensource #technology

3 min read

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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Mar 20 '25

How to get 100% code coverage? ✅

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

7 min read

K3K

Feb 16 '25

🚀 Steam MiniProfile: A Real-Time, Embeddable Steam Widget for Your Website

#showdev #webdev #tooling #opensource

2 min read

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Duplessis van Aswegen

Mar 22 '25

Help! It’s Another TypeScript Metadata Registry! (But this one's useful)

#typescript #metadata #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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