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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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Apr 19

Scaling Kubernetes Applications: HPA, VPA, KEDA, and Beyond

#kubernetes #devops #devto #opensource

6 min read

Apr 19

Showcasing My A–Z Ethereum Wallet Project: Features & Insights

#wallet #ethereum #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Apr 20

When Gandhi met Satoshi

#blockchain #bitcoin #opensource

2 min read

TheoForger

Mar 27

Sprint 5 - Mischief Happens

#opensource #beginners #rust

4 min read

Joe Curlee

Mar 27

OpenVoice added to AI Runner

#ai #opensource #python

1 min read

Mar 27

Building EczEase with Cutting-Edge Tech - Build Landing Page

#angular #gcp #openai #opensource

4 min read

Mar 30

Self-Hosting Nextcloud on a Hetzner Ubuntu Server

#cloud #devops #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Anmol Baranwal for Composio

Apr 22

The guide to MCP I never had.

#programming #tutorial #mcp #opensource

22 min read

Mar 27

Self-Host Umami Analytics With Docker Compose

#docker #devops #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Mar 30

5 Awesome ownCloud Alternatives to consider in 2025

#cloud #devops #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Trần Viết Chính

Mar 27

Why Learn PHP?

#webdev #php #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Apr 18

FastOpenAPI: A Reason to Believe in Open Source Community

#python #openapi #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Apr 21

📢 HMPL v3.0: New big update!

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Apr 18

Backstage for the win!

#backstage #opensource #programming #javascript

9 min read

NocoBase

Apr 9

[Tutorial] Building a Complete Project Management Platform

#opensource #management #tutorial #lowcode

2 min read

NeuralLang

Mar 26

Boosting Neural Networks with Automated Hyperparameter Optimization

#deeplearning #machinelearning #opensource #ai

5 min read

Mar 30

🧠 The Mesh is Coming: How We’re Building the Future of AI from the Ground Up

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #neuralnetworks

3 min read

Mar 26

Developing a WebRTC SFU library in Rust

#webrtc #sfu #rust #opensource

7 min read

RisingWave Labs

Apr 18

RisingWave Turns Four: Our Journey Beyond Democratizing Stream Processing

#news #opensource #database #datascience

9 min read

Juraj for Cyclops UI

Apr 24

What are Golden Paths in Platform Engineering?

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #cloud

4 min read

ℵi✗✗

Mar 27

React Simple Select: A Lightweight and Customizable Select Component for React

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Sayan Mondal for LitmusChaos

Mar 26

LitmusChaos is Heading to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 – Join the Chaos!

#litmuschaos #opensource #cloud #devops

4 min read

Xiao Yijun for Logto

Mar 26

Top 5 Open Source Identity and Access Management (IAM) providers 2025

#opensource #iam #ssoproviders

10 min read

NeuralLang

Mar 30

Neural DSL v0.2.5 Update: Explore Multi-Framework HPO Features

#machinelearning #deeplearning #python #opensource

3 min read

Syed Mudasser Anayat

Mar 26

Multimodal AI: The Future of Artificial Intelligence

#ai #multimodalai #opensource

3 min read

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