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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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Ibrahim Olawoyin

Mar 25

Outreachy 2026 -Comprehensive portfolio of my contributions to the Fedora Project during the Outreachy application phase

#outreachy #fedora #opensource #portfolio

5 min read

Tom Lee

Mar 11

Files Are the New API — But Who's Checking the Files?

#ai #agents #security #opensource

4 min read

Mar 11

I Spent 11 Hours Self-Hosting n8n on a VPS. Here's What It Actually Costs You

#ai #devops #productivity #opensource

4 min read

ZigRazor

Mar 24

CXXGraph: The Header-Only C++ Graph Library You Should Know About

#cpp #algorithms #graphtheory #opensource

9 min read

Mar 25

I Replaced 8 Browser Tabs With One Tool I Built Myself

#webdev #javascript #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Zaptain Zi

Mar 11

I Built an Experience Layer for Claude Code So It Would Stop Re-Solving the Same Bugs

#ai #beginners #opensource #github

7 min read

Vitaly D.

Mar 11

Skillpulse: Your AI Skills Are Flying Blind Without Telemetry

#aiagents #claudecode #telemetry #opensource

3 min read

Mar 11

The Zero-Dependency Python Toolkit: 3 CLI Tools, No pip install Required

#python #opensource #webdev #beginners

2 min read

Pranit

Mar 11

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Scaling LLM Terminal Agents

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

Pranit

Mar 11

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Scaling LLM Terminal Agents

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

Mar 11

How I Used Ollama Locally Instead of Paying for the OpenAI API

#ollama #ai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Mar 11

I Built a Python CSV Cleaner That Fixes Messy Data in One Command

#python #datascience #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Vishal Prajapati

Mar 11

Why Many "Open Issues" in Open Source Are Actually Not Available for Beginners

#beginners #opensource #gsoc #programming

1 min read

Can Koylan

Mar 25

Opire: The New Bounty Platform That is Changing Open Source Economics

#opensource #bounties #opire #developer

4 min read

Daniel Kolawole Aina

Mar 15

Building PulseCard: A Privacy-First Emergency Medical ID with 20 Languages

#opensource #privacy #webdev

4 min read

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