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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.

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

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Jul 12 '25

Implementing App notifications: The FOSS way

#opensource #mobile #android

7 min read

Jul 13 '25

Automate the Boring Stuff! Check Out This Open-Source Tool

#automation #opensource #n8n

5 min read

Jul 13 '25

Automate, Curate, Share: Building an Open Source Reading List

#discuss #opensource #productivity #learning

3 min read

tsuruko

Jul 13 '25

Smarter Conditions, Still No Ifs—Triggon Just Got Better

#python #opensource #library #triggon

1 min read

Jul 13 '25

GSoC Week 6: Deep Diving into the Interactive Book Issue

#opensource #flutter #dart

3 min read

Jul 13 '25

A Plug and Play Auth API

#webdev #opensource #backend #node

1 min read

Jul 13 '25

GSoC Week 5: Markdown broke, CI/CD woke

#opensource #flutter #dart

4 min read

Jul 13 '25

Why do you contribute to Open Source? What is your motivation?

#opensource #beginners #programming #career

2 min read

Imran Khan

Jul 13 '25

Looking for Hackathon Squad

#hackathon #programming #opensource #career

1 min read

Randall

Jul 12 '25

How I Host a Bot in 50,000 Discord Servers For Free

#discord #javascript #opensource #programming

9 min read

Cassidy Williams

Jul 25 '25

Tools using tools

#ai #opensource

2 min read

Rafa Mori

Jul 13 '25

🚀 LookAtni File Markers — Invisible Markers to Structure Your Files Like Magic

#ai #devops #vscode #opensource

1 min read

Jul 12 '25

AutoBE, Backend No-Coding Agent Achieving 100% Compilation Success (Open Source)

#ai #nocode #programming #opensource

4 min read

Jul 12 '25

Contributing to PyPI

#python #opensource #programming

1 min read

Jul 12 '25

Enhanced Paperless-NGX with Paddle OCR + LLM Pipeline

#python #docker #llm #opensource

3 min read

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