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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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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Lymah

Oct 30

Hacktoberfest 2025 Reflection: Three Years, Three Lessons, One Evolution

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

7 min read

Priya Negi

Oct 30

5,000+ Stars on GitHub: Our Journey Building Droidun in Public

#opensource #ai #python

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 30

My First Hacktoberfest: Discovering the Heart of Open Source

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

5 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Hirushi Nethmini

Oct 30

Learning Through Contribution - Hacktoberfest 2025🎯

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Oct 30

Supercharge Your GitHub Profile with OpenReadme: Bento-Style Banners, Live Stats, and Open-Source Community

#opensource #community #development #github

2 min read

Oct 30

I built InvisiBrain — a free, open-source alternative to Cluely and Parakeet AI

#ai #javascript #python #opensource

1 min read

Oct 30

My Journey into Open Source: From Linux Basics to Self-Hosting SearXNG

#opensource #linux #privacy #docker

9 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Oct 30

OSPP Project Outcome: Supporting Flink Engine CDC Source Schema Evolution

#database #dataengineering #opensource

6 min read

Helder Nogueira

Oct 30

Squared2D Game Engine Update

#showdev #opensource #tooling #gamedev

1 min read

Oct 30

🤖 Introducing ALTK, the open-source agent lifecycle toolkit

#altk #opensource #agents #agenticai

6 min read

Santiago Moraga Caldera

Oct 30

Shadcn UI Multi Form — A new version is coming soon!

#opensource #nextjs #shadcnui #frontend

1 min read

Oct 29

Building a Cross-Platform CLI Tool with TypeScript

#typescript #javascript #cli #opensource

2 min read

Havilah Academy

Oct 30

Final Sprint: Just 1 Day Left!

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #hackathon

1 min read

kaifcodec

Oct 29

Created InstaScrape an Async Instagram Comment Scraper, looking for feedbacks and contributions.

#showdev #opensource #python #tooling

2 min read

kanishkrawatt for Requestly

Oct 29

Best Ways to Use Collection Runners for API Workflows

#api #testing #opensource #apiclient

2 min read

Kushagra

Oct 30

Spotlight: A Modern Social Media App Built with React Native + Expo

#reactnative #opensource #mobile #buildinpublic

1 min read

Luis

Oct 29

TLDR on Steroids - Meet IntelliShell

#showdev #beginners #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Eppie

Oct 30

Eppie, a new open-source cross-platform email client, on Snap Store🐧

#opensource #programming #linux #security

2 min read

Li

Oct 29

easy-query: A Modern, Type-Safe ORM for Java That Actually Makes Sense

#opensource #tooling #java #database

7 min read

John Pagley for Joyfill

Oct 29

The Inspiring Story of the Popular Open-Source Library—Shadcn Form Builder

#programming #opensource #react #buildinpublic

3 min read

Lymah

Oct 29

Building Effective Prompts and Workflows for Code Review with goose

#goos #ai #opensource #mcp

21 min read

Oct 29

Let's Build ExamMate Together - An Open Source Project to Simplify Exam Prep

#opensource #ai #django #react

3 min read

Oluwafemi Adelekan

Oct 30

Deck 11: Free Open‑Source Card Pack for Figma

#figma #opensource #design #productivity

1 min read

MuleRun

Oct 30

MuleRun GACUA: An Open-Source Computer Use Agent That Actually Works

#webdev #ai #opensource #programming

5 min read

Oct 30

Dioc library in Hoppscotch codebase.

#dioc #opensource #service #hoppscotch

3 min read

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