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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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goyal-aman

Nov 18 '25

Announcing Remembral - a project I built because I needed it, and now I’m opening it up to everyone

#showdev #webdev #opensource #startup

2 min read

Dec 23 '25

Trust Roles, Not Payments: How We're Building an Open Source Security Community

#opensource #security #community #blockchain

4 min read

Rohan Satkar | Coderxrohan

Dec 22 '25

Fixing Focus Management in PrimeReact Calendar (Open Source Contribution)

#programming #opensource #github #react

3 min read

Nov 19 '25

Introduction to Swarm: Creating Custom Plugins

#webdev #nextjs #opensource #typescript

10 min read

Dec 22 '25

Minion Skills: An Open Source Implementation of Claude Code Skills

#agents #opensource #architecture #ai

5 min read

Dec 22 '25

About Me - An Outreachy Blog

#outreachy #opensource

4 min read

Luke

Dec 23 '25

Documentation Sucks (I may have made it suck less)

#documentation #cli #opensource #ai

2 min read

Aviral Srivastava

Nov 19 '25

KubeEdge and Edge Computing

#distributedsystems #iot #opensource #kubernetes

5 min read

kihuni

Dec 22 '25

My Journey Contributing to Django: From Intimidation to a Merged Ticket 🚀

#django #djangonauts #opensource #programming

3 min read

fsiovn

Nov 22 '25

VSCode Autocomplete extension

#vscode #ai #autocomplete #opensource

1 min read

Dec 10 '25

I built a Laravel package to stop silent cron failures

#php #laravel #opensource #webdev

2 min read

phåńtøm šłîçk

Dec 22 '25

ANNOUNCING Telegem V1.0.0 - The modern Telegram Bot Framework for ruby

#opensource #api #ruby

1 min read

Dec 19 '25

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 14: Agent Skills

#adventofai #ai #opensource #goose

5 min read

Dec 20 '25

Building a Real-time VPN Monitoring System from Tokyo with Google Apps Script

#vpn #googleappsscript #opensource #javascript

7 min read

Emmanuel Victor

Nov 17 '25

Smart_Store Schema Guide: Future-Proofing Your Data with Versioning

#career #architecture #opensource #cpp

2 min read

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