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

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

Ajisafe Victor Oluwapelumi

Feb 9 '23

(Solve) N Queens with Python

#security #opensource #softwareengineering

4 min read

Feb 8 '23

Should You Use char, varchar, or text in PostgreSQL?

#tooling #opensource #api #github

3 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Mar 24 '23

Google’s Bard AI: ChatGPT Rival or The Next Frontier in AI and NLP Technology

#fossstories #fossnaijanews #opensource

2 min read

Oliver for TerminusDB Community

Feb 8 '23

Putting the Graph in GraphQL Query

#news #graphql #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Faris Han

Feb 8 '23

Naively Making a Simple 2D Action Browser-based Game Prototype with JavaScript and Canvas API

#ai #opensource #tooling

6 min read

Feb 8 '23

A 5 step approach to Data analysis in PowerBI

#howto #google #opensource

5 min read

Feb 7 '23

stevedore - a side-project to help ignoring for Docker

#sideprojects #docker #opensource #stevedore

4 min read

Julia Heitner for RippleX Developers

Feb 7 '23

Application Open for XRPL Grants Wave 5!

#xrpl #xrplgrants #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

Feb 7 '23

Top 10 Best Open Source GitHub repos for Developers 2023

#opensource #webdev #programming #tutorial

5 min read

Feb 7 '23

10 Tips to Succeed as a Junior Developer

#discuss #linux #opensource

7 min read

عبدالله عياد | Abdullah Ayad for AWS Community Builders

Feb 7 '23

Generate requirements.txt file using pipreqs

#git #cloud #opensource #programming

2 min read

Alexander Tejeda

Feb 7 '23

Learning angular from Scratch - Chapter #0

#discuss #opensource #privacy #software

3 min read

Daniel Genezini

Feb 6 '23

How to use C# 11 features in .NET 6 or older versions (even .NET Framework 2.0)

#announcement #devto #opensource

5 min read

Feb 6 '23

How to remove the last character from a string in PHP

#contentwriting #career #writing #opensource

4 min read

Michel Versiani

Feb 6 '23

Melhorando a rastreabilidade do sistema com um histórico de ações do usuário/sistema.

#announcement #devto #opensource #royalties

9 min read

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