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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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Sep 18

The Offset Reset Dilemma: Avoiding Surprise Replays in Kafka

#kafka #opensource #programming #eventdriven

1 min read

Sep 18

🚀 Join Hacktoberfest 2025: Contribute to Our DSA Code Repository!

#hacktoberfest2025 #opensource #dsa #programming

3 min read

Sep 18

Use PVS-Studio to analyze open-source projects

#opensource #cicd #yaml #programming

5 min read

cong yin

Sep 18

MuseBot: Multi-Platform Chatbot with Multi-LLMs Support

#opensource #ai #go #javascript

1 min read

Sep 17

My Experience Publishing to the Official MCP Registry - Is It Worth It Right Now?

#mcp #ai #developer #opensource

1 min read

Ciphernutz

Sep 17

n8n Self-Hosted vs n8n Cloud: Which Should You Choose?

#n8n #cloud #n8nautomation #opensource

2 min read

Sep 17

`rageDetectors` in Codebuff codebase.

#codebuff #detector #opensource #sockets

3 min read

Sep 21

Froggit New Version v0.5.0

#opensource #go #git #webdev

1 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Sep 17

Day 9 of 90 Days Free Python Code Scripts for Beginners – Build a Result Calculator

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

midlaj cybrosys

Sep 17

Managing Users and Access Rights in Odoo (for New Admins)

#odoo #odoopartner #odooerp #opensource

4 min read

Sep 30

Building a Robust Data Observability Framework to Ensure Data Quality and Integrity

#dataengineering #opensource #datascience #data

7 min read

Sep 17

Introducing colorific-magic: Enhance Your Console Logs with Stunning Colors

#node #npm #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Dharam Ghevariya

Sep 20

Raising PR to Another Repository

#github #javascript #opensource #devjournal

3 min read

xuxiaofeng

Sep 17

Bill Split Calculator

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Timon Vonk

Sep 16

Announcing Swiftide 0.31

#programming #ai #rust #opensource

1 min read

PikaPods

Sep 16

Introducing PikaPods: Your Open-Source Hosting Platform

#opensource #pikapods #webdev #beginners

1 min read

Kushagra Srivastava

Sep 16

My Google Summer of Code Journey: Part 2

#programming #kernel #freebsd #opensource

5 min read

Sep 14

How to Get Selected for GSoC (Google Summer of Code) - My Personal Experience at Accord Project

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #opensource

5 min read

Antonio

Oct 6

KillPort Advanced v2.0:Evolution of a Port Management Tool for macOS

#devtools #shell #opensource #performance

4 min read

ByteKnight

Sep 15

🧅 Oniux: Tor Routing for Linux

#opensource #cybersecurity #tor

1 min read

Jon Davis

Oct 3

C# (Maybe) Joins the Motia Family: Building Multi-Language Workflows with .NET 9

#showdev #opensource #dotnet #csharp

7 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Domenico Tenace for This is Learning

Oct 6

Hacktoberfest 2025: Share Your Open Source Projects! 🎃

#discuss #hacktoberfest #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Altinity

Sep 16

Understanding Detached Parts in ClickHouse®

#devops #opensource #clickhouse #troubleshooting

11 min read

terryncew

Sep 16

Open Line Protocol — a geometry-first wire for AI agents (MIT)

#opensource #ai #agents #protocol

1 min read

ozkeisar

Sep 15

Give Juniors a Chance

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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