Skip to content

DEV Community

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

tag moderators

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

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Dec 28

Sloan's Inbox: Feeling like I'm not doing enough...

#discuss #learning #opensource

1 min read

Stacy Roll

Dec 27

How to get the keys without pressing enter in rust ⌨️

#rust #beginners #programming #opensource

1 min read

Sean Boult

Dec 27

Overlayed: Elevating Your Discord Experience Beyond Gaming

#discord #typescript #tauri #opensource

2 min read

Seal

Dec 27

Unleash the power of LLMs for DevOps engineers!

#ai #devops #opensource

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Dec 26

FLaNK 25 December 2023

#apachenifi #apachekafka #apacheflink #opensource

4 min read

RisingWave Labs

Dec 26

Highlights of RisingWave v1.5: The Open-Source Streaming Database

#news #database #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Dec 24

Optimizing Your AWS EC2 Windows Instance: A Comprehensive Guide to Extending Root Volumes and Adding Extra Storage

#aws #devops #opensource #cloud

3 min read

Dec 27

CodiumAI PR-Agent: The Copilot Killer?

#ai #opensource #github #programming

4 min read

Thomas Bnt for Mr. Robøt

Dec 26

Publishing documentation with Astro Starlight

#astro #webdev #opensource

8 min read

GBTI

Dec 26

How to copy table data easily with this Chrome Extension

#opensource #extensions #chrome #browserextensions

1 min read

azu

Dec 26

My GitHub Sponsors Revenue @ 2023

#github #sponsors #opensource

3 min read

ansun

Dec 26

Teamlinker:A new generation of team collaboration open source platform based on artificial intelligence

#opensource #github

3 min read

Shalaka Deshan Silva

Dec 26

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

DASWU

Dec 25

How We Achieved a 40x Performance Boost in Metadata Backup and Recovery

#ai #opensource #kubernetes

14 min read

Grzegorz Piechnik

Dec 24

Continous Profiling with Grafana Pyroscope

#devops #tutorial #python #opensource

6 min read

Dec 18

Thala For A Reason

#beginners #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Dec 18

FLaNK Weekly 18 Dec 2023

#apachenifi #opensource #apacheflink #apachekafka

3 min read

Dec 18

J.A.R.V.I.S Crossed 700+ 🌟 Stars and 160+ Forks on GitHub!

#ai #llm #opensource #python

1 min read

Eleni Grosdouli

Dec 18

5-Step Approach: Projectsveltos for Kubernetes add-on deployment and management on RKE2

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #tutorial

6 min read

IA_AU_ECO

Dec 21

The Impact of AI on Writing Code

#productivity #opensource #security

2 min read

Mohammed

Dec 21

From Java2D to a custom game engine, the past present, and future

#opensource #gamedev #java #beginners

4 min read

Dec 20

The 5 C# Zip Libraries Every Developer Must Know

#csharp #zip #library #opensource

6 min read