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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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Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Jun 28

The 20-Minute Daily Review That Tripled My Code Quality (Git Data Proof)

#discuss #webdev #productivity #opensource

5 min read

flo merian

Jun 26

Did Appwrite do the ideal Product Hunt launch?

#showdev #startup #marketing #opensource

2 min read

Jun 28

I Was Tired of Manually Tracking My GitHub Repos

#github #opensource #claudeai #vibecoding

3 min read

Jun 28

From Frustration to Flow: How Keploy Changed the Way I Test APIs

#api #webdev #testing #opensource

2 min read

Jun 28

Rust in the Linux Kernel: The Future of Safe Systems Programming

#rust #linux #opensource

1 min read

Jun 28

🌍 Build My Own Telegram Translator Bot with Python

#python #programming #opensource #learning

2 min read

Aero

Jun 28

It's 2025 - Why Is Offline File Sharing Still So Broken?

#discuss #privacy #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Jun 28

# Level Up Library Outreach: A Developer's Guide to Community Engagement Strategies

#techforgood #opensource #library #communityengagement

2 min read

gudhalarya

Jun 27

I Built a GitHub Repo Analyzer with FastAPI and PostgreSQL – Live Demo + Source Code

#showdev #fastapi #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jun 27

Project of the Week: Deno

#discuss #deno #node #opensource

3 min read

Jun 27

I Made My Terminal Understand English (And You Can Too)

#ai #cli #zsh #opensource

1 min read

PHANI KUMAR KOLLA

Jun 27

Level Up Your Dev Game: The Top 15 GitHub Repositories You NEED to Follow in 2025!

#github #opensource #programming #developers

4 min read

Angshu Roy

Jun 27

[veld-fm] I Built a Terminal File Manager with Tiling Panels Because I'm Obsessed with Keyboard Shortcuts

#python #terminal #linux #opensource

3 min read

Jun 27

What does "react": "catalog:" in package.json mean?

#catalog #monorepo #opensource #reactrouter

2 min read

Jun 27

New Open Souce Project On GitHub

#css #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Jun 27

STOP Paying BuiltWith, SimilarTech & Wappalyzer - My 2-Day Build Gives You Unlimited, Free, Community-Driven Tech-Stack Data

#webdev #opensource #programming #tooling

2 min read

Yash Modi

Jun 27

16-Year-Old’s Journey to Building a Portfolio Website 🚀

#webdev #programming #portfolio #opensource

2 min read

Jun 27

Rediscover Movies with Plotrix

#programming #ai #opensource #docker

3 min read

Jun 27

From Manual API Testing to AI-Powered Automation: My Experience with Keploy

#opensource #api #testing

2 min read

Aniket Raj

Jun 27

Project KARL - AI

#ai #programming #opensource #kotlin

1 min read

Domenico Tenace for This is Learning

Jun 27

I've launched my YouTube Channel 📹

#news #opensource #programming #webdev

2 min read

Ayokanmi Adejola

Jun 26

Growing My Frontend Portfolio & Network: Join Me

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jun 26

🛡️ How RedXShield is Changing Africa’s Cybersecurity Game

#africantech #cybersecurity #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Jun 26

What is wrangler.jsonc file in 0.email codebase?

#wrangler #cloudflarechallenge #react #opensource

3 min read

Elanat Framework

Jun 26

WebForms Core Organization on GitHub

#github #opensource #backend #webformscore

1 min read

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