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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).

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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Focuses on community-driven open source

nyaomaru

Nov 4

Meet Necoz! 😸 Small. Simple. Useful.

#opensource #typescript #software #community

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2 min read

Peter Vivo

Nov 6

Retro :: Spider-Paint

#showdev #tooling #weeklyretro #opensource

2 min read

Nov 6

Every keyboard is a mechanical keyboard with Klicky

#rust #opensource #linux #performance

6 min read

Nov 5

One word in a chat took my shop offline. I built it that way.

#ai #devops #opensource #sre

5 min read

MLH Team for Major League Hacking (MLH)

Nov 5

Prompt Pad: What Are Open-Weight Models?

#opensource #ai #beginners #codenewbie

1 min read

Idrees Saifuddin

Nov 6

How I built a request tracer for Laravel without a PHP extension

#laravel #php #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Vinicius Pereira

Nov 6

Three 'clients' sent me malware in two days. Binance lost $6.34 billion to the same trick.

#security #opensource #python #career

8 min read

Juan Camilo Auriti

Nov 6

1,137 stars, 127 forks, 2,000+ tests. What 8 months of open-source GEO tooling taught me about what AI actually reads

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Kateryna Ivashchenko

Nov 6

I built a security-report desk that keeps vulnerabilities under embargo, and the chat platform enforces it

#showdev #opensource #security #ai

4 min read

oleg-vdv

Nov 6

My SOC triage model had 0 false escalations. On real alerts it had 39 out of 100.

#security #machinelearning #opensource #llm

4 min read

Nov 6

The Cost of Self-Hosting Open-Source LLMs: GPUs, Staffing, and Operations

#ai #infrastructure #llm #opensource

10 min read

Nov 6

Desktops have SQLite. Servers have Postgres. Now, the browser finally has WebDB — Introducing WebDB

#webdev #typescript #webassembly #opensource

5 min read

Nov 6

I built a private, offline AI chat you can run with one command: npx unmuzzled

#ai #opensource #javascript #llm

5 min read

wright-benjamin-1701

Nov 6

An Open-Source Scanner That Tells You Exactly How to Get Quantum-Ready

#cybersecurity #opensource #quantum

5 min read

Shayan Ali

Nov 6

Building a 2,135-Project Static Showcase (No Database, No Framework, No Regrets)

#opensource #ai #python #webdev

4 min read

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