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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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Jan 11

Certificate Generation using OpenSSL locally

#security #opensource #beginners

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Feb 14

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#github #opensource #ai #githubactions

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The Global South OSC

#github #ai #opensource #developer

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Jan 11

The Essential Role of Communication in Successful Project Management

#opensource #projectmanagemen

3 min read

Eduardo Messuti for StatusPal

Feb 11

Top 16 DevOps Tools for 2025: (Excellent for SREs, Too!)

#webdev #devops #ai #opensource

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Hasan

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DeepSeek R1 + Ollama: 5 Free Open-Source AI Tools You Can Run Locally

#ai #opensource #deepseek #rag

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Hadil Ben Abdallah

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🦊 React-Fox-Toast: A Silent but Powerful Presence in Your UI

#webdev #programming #opensource #coding

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🌷Creating an SSR Gallery App in JavaScript

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

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🐐 DevCv: The G.O.A.T. of CV Builders for Developers

#career #opensource #frontend #tooling

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Judy

Jan 24

Cross-Database Migratable Reports--SPL Reporting

#database #programming #devops #opensource

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Chen Debra

Feb 13

Open Source Data Engineering Landscape 2025

#dataengineering #opensource #apacheddolphinscheduler #database

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Feb 2

Data Governance Plan for Cloud-Based Projects

#data #cloud #devops #opensource

2 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Feb 13

Metabase 53: Save questions to dashboards, dynamic iframe cards, preemptive caching, and more!

#metabase #opensource #dataviz #analytics

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Neurolov

Feb 13

Introducing Neurolov Neuro Image Gen

#showdev #programming #news #opensource

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Jan 10

SourceCodeDocs website has been established

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

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Uday R

Feb 2

My Plans In Open Source This Week

#opensource

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Feb 2

The Tools and APIs That Made My GeoGuessr 🌍 Project Possible

#webdev #react #opensource #gamedev

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Amir Mullagaliev

Feb 13

OSD 700: Sprint 3 - Code Review / First Problems

#opensource #webdev

3 min read

Savannah Copland

Jan 10

Making Beautiful API Keys

#go #api #opensource #webdev

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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Jan 21

The Tech Stack for Building AI Apps in 2025

#ai #javascript #opensource #programming

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Arindam Majumder

Feb 7

⚡️Top 10 Project Management Tools Trending in 2025 🔥

#opensource #productivity #programming #beginners

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NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#nocode #lowcode #opensource #github

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Welcome WebForms Core Technology to R: A New Era Begins

#r #github #opensource #webformscore

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Faceplugin

Jan 13

Enhancing Security with Face Recognition Access Control Systems

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Feb 12

I Applied to Y Combinator Again | YC Founders Intro

#opensource #tutorial #programming #ai

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