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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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Pavel

Aug 15

I Gave My LLM a Promotion: Now It Delegates Its Own Work

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jian Mo

Jun 26

Day 1: Building Morning Story - An Open Source Bot for Automated Standup Updates!

#buildinpublic #opensource #productivity #morningstory

2 min read

Jun 26

Building Your First Kotlin Multiplatform App: From Setup to iOS App Store with Compose Multiplatform (2025 Guide)

#kotlin #mobile #android #opensource

10 min read

Tharushi Nimeshika

Jul 30

Excited to Start My Journey with WSO2 and Open-Source Contribution

#discuss #codenewbie #opensource #career

1 min read

Can Mingir for GreyCollar

Jun 25

📢 GreyCollar: Supervised Agentic AI Project

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #typescript

6 min read

Jun 30

Tailwind CSS with superpowers!

#tailwindcss #css #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Cristian Paul Castañeda

Jul 29

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

Kenta Goto for AWS Heroes

Jul 30

Easily Delete S3 Vectors with cls3

#aws #s3 #opensource

3 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 26

Introduction to project management (for beginners)

#opensource #programming #devtools #github

3 min read

Sarah Nyambura Kiiru

Jun 26

My Journey Into Git, GitHub & Version Control 💻

#git #github #opensource #versioncontrol

2 min read

Jun 26

# Secure the Future: Dive into Innovations in Digital Archiving

#coding #archiving #datapreservation #opensource

2 min read

Atharv Remeshan

Jul 30

Rate my first Front-end project

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Jun 26

# Level Up Your Community Impact: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Public Libraries Webinar

#tech #libraries #opensource #community

2 min read

Luis Gustavo S. Barreto

Jul 29

drera-labs: Terminal website

#webdev #opensource #linux #cli

3 min read

kobaltGIT

Jul 29

I Built a Telegram Bot That Remembers Everything But Knows Nothing About You

#python #telegram #opensource #privacy

4 min read

Ryan Casey

Jun 25

AI Powered Honeypot

#ai #python #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

TROJAN

Jul 29

MIA – The AI Assistant That Might Replace You (or Just Roast You)

#python #opensource #ai #fastapi

1 min read

Saksham Kushwaha

Jun 26

building the CLI tool that I wish shadcn/ui had

#webdev #cli #productivity #opensource

4 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 26

Project risk management strategies

#opensource #webdev #softwaredevelopment #projectrisks

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 26

Mengenal Daftar (Array) dalam Bahasa Pemrograman Earl

#programming #opensource #beginners #indonesia

2 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Jul 16

Introducing Branching 2.0

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Abubakersiddique771

Jul 18

I Stopped Doing These 5 “Smart” Things — And Became a Better Developer

#programming #productivity #mobile #opensource

3 min read

Bryantad

Jun 25

Sona v0.7.0 Is Live — Object-Oriented Power Unleashed

#showdev #programming #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Nizamuddin Ali Ahmed

Aug 2

Secure Your Android App with Biometric SDK in 5 Minutes 🔐 (Kotlin)

#android #kotlin #security #opensource

3 min read

Matthew Walther

Jul 29

How to sell open source technology to the government

#news #opensource #procurement #government

13 min read

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