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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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Joe Curlee

May 2 '25

AI Runner: OpenSource desktop app for AI models

#ai #python #opensource

1 min read

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Alex Enson

May 2 '25

Scripting Series – Part 4 of 8

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

2 min read

Vasudevan Tamilarasan

May 2 '25

GIT Contribution Tracker

#git #opensource #tracker #programming

2 min read

Laetitia Perraut

May 2 '25

Blockchain's Revolutionary Role in Open Source Software

#blockchain #opensource #decentralizedgovernance

8 min read

temaweb10

May 2 '25

How to start your journey in Open Source using the example of a small Go project

#opensource #go #cli #programming

2 min read

May 2 '25

BillingErrorAlert component in Suna, an open source generalist AI agent.

#opensource #nextjs #agents

3 min read

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NeuroSync

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How Focus Bubble™ Works: Enter Your Distraction-Free Zone

#focus #productivity #devtools #opensource

1 min read

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NeuroSync

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How FlowForge™ Works: AI-Powered Time & Energy Planning

#ai #productivity #calendar #opensource

1 min read

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OLUWADAMILOLA ADETUGBOBO

May 1 '25

What Keeps Red Hat So Damn Solid? Spoiler: It’s Not Luck, It’s Ruthless Kernel Engineering!

#redhat #linux #opensource #cloudwhistler

5 min read

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Docmost, an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.

#opensource #wiki #docmost #notion

2 min read

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Communication is All You Need: What is A2A protocol ?

#ai #mcp #a2a #opensource

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Saurabh Mahawar

May 1 '25

🚀 Setting Up Presto : A Step by Step Installation Guide to Run SQL Queries.

#opensource #presto #datascience #dataengineering

4 min read

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NeuroSync

Mar 28 '25

Introducing NeuroSync — The Emotionally Intelligent Productivity OS (Open-Source & Modular)

#opensource #productivity #ai #startup

2 min read

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Armon B

May 1 '25

I'm building an Orchestration Platform for AI Agents, and want to feature your open-source agents!

#opensource #ai #learning #sideprojects

1 min read

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NocoBase

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The Best Open-Source Alternatives to AppSheet in 2025

#opensource #appsheet #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

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