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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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Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jun 20

Project of the Week: Windmill

#discuss #webdev #opensource #github

2 min read

Amin Yazdanpanah

May 17

I built a full WebRTC implementation in PHP – Feedback welcome!

#webrtc #php #opensource

1 min read

May 17

Unveiling CeCILL-B: A Comprehensive Exploration of a Fair Open Source License

#cecillb #opensource #fairlicensing

7 min read

Laura Salinas for AWS

Jun 23

First Impressions with Strands Agents SDK 🧬

#aws #beginners #learning #opensource

6 min read

perber

Jun 20

LeafWiki – A Markdown Wiki is now ready for Dogfooding (v0.4.0)

#devops #devjournal #opensource #markdown

2 min read

Lex Plt

May 17

Instruction source location tracking in ArkScript

#showdev #arkscript #pldev #opensource

5 min read

AHMAD RAZA

May 17

Open Source Project - Contribute Begginers

#webdev #opensource #beginners #react

1 min read

toxi360

May 21

GOSync – My open-source SSH file sync app with tray & encryption

#programming #python #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Wendy

Jun 20

No Tech Background, 4,000 Visits in 12 Hours — How I Built a Minimal Travel Platform with AI

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

2 min read

May 17

I made a simple open source hashtag generator – TrendTags

#showdev #opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Jun 19

The Bug-to-Feature Mindset: How Top Developers Turn Problems Into Career Gold

#webdev #productivity #devops #opensource

6 min read

May 17

Introducing a new command to the Python Polylith tool

#polylith #python #opensource #architecture

2 min read

May 17

Unveiling JSON License Modified: A Deep Dive into Fair Code Licensing

#jsonlicensemodified #faircodelicensing #opensource

7 min read

Eva Clari

Jun 23

How to Get Started in Open Source (Even if You’re a Beginner)

#opensource #programming #coding #beginners

2 min read

May 17

Leet2Git: Automatically Push Your LeetCode Submissions to GitHub (Free and Supports All Languages!)

#opensource #leetcode #github #productivity

2 min read

Wanda

Jun 20

OpenCode, the Open-Source Claude Code Alternative: How It Elevates Your Terminal Workflow

#opensource #claudecode #terminal #tooling

5 min read

George Delaportas (ViR4X)

May 20

GreyOS: The Meta-OS Redefining Cloud Computing

#opensource #cloud #php #javascript

3 min read

Jul 2

9 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Jun 24

DeepWiki: The AI-Powered Guide to Open Source Codebases You Didn’t Know You Needed

#ai #opensource #github #coding

3 min read

Saddam Hosen (SH Saad)

Jun 19

I Built Free Document Maker — A Free AI Platform for Instant Invoices, PDFs, and More

#webdev #startup #laravel #opensource

1 min read

cdilorenzo

Jun 9

⏱️ Stop Parsing Durations by Hand — Meet SmartTimeSpanParser for .NET 9

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Code Area

May 21

Boost Your JavaScript Skills with Closures, Promises, and Async/Await

#discuss #webdev #devops #opensource

2 min read

Jun 20

🚀 Become a Founding Legionnaire — Help Build the Fastest PHP & DevOps Stack

#php #opensource #laravel #symfony

3 min read

masem

Jun 19

gq-to-sql v0.2.0 — Grouping, Joins, and PostgreSQL Support

#javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Rohan

May 21

I Built Zigistry, a Package Registry for Zig with No Money (except $3 domain name)- Here's How

#webdev #zig #opensource #web3

3 min read

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