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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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jake r

Jan 14

Open-Source React Icon Picker: Lightweight, Customizable, and Built with ShadCN, TailwindCSS. Perfect for Next.js Projects!

#nextjs #react #opensource #tailwindcss

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 27

AWS open source newsletter, #206

#opensource #aws

21 min read

Jan 14

Enhance Your App's Security with OTP-Agent

#javascript #security #opensource #programming

2 min read

jldec

Jan 13

3 essential elements for Web publishing

#webdev #contentwriting #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Jonathan Bhaskar

Feb 5

Declarative Data Pipelines: Moving from Code to Configuration

#dataengineering #python #opensource

13 min read

Michael Michaelides

Jan 13

Sign up to our bug bounty platform!

#news #programming #career #opensource

1 min read

Margaret Julian

Jan 17

We launched an open-source Hydrogen theme on Remix

#opensource #frontend

1 min read

Gittech

Feb 18

30+ Mind-Blowing GitHub Repositories You Need to Check Out! 🚀

#ai #github #opensource #webdev

12 min read

Vivesh

Feb 5

Evaluating Kubernetes for Your Organization ?

#kubernetes #devops #cloudnative #opensource

2 min read

Softqube Technologies

Jan 13

Project Management Excellence: Navigating Towards Successful Outcomes

#opensource #projectmanagemen

3 min read

Jan 12

Ship mobile apps faster with React-Native-Blossom-UI

#reactnative #uidesign #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Anuj Gupta

Jan 12

Building an Open-Source AI Newsletter Engine

#opensource #python #ai #newsletter

1 min read

AG2 Blogger for AG2

Feb 14

DeepResearchAgent - Your Shortcut for Faster Research

#deepresearch #agent #opensource #llm

4 min read

Feb 15

State management & ObservableTypes

#webdev #javascript #functionalreactiveprogramming #opensource

2 min read

Daniel Oluojomu

Feb 4

Optimising Convoy’s Flatten Package

#go #mongodb #opensource #memory

4 min read

Suraj

Feb 14

23 React Projects with Source Code – Learn by Building

#programming #react #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

MCnad

Feb 14

AI Agents vs. Real Customers: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

4 min read

Valerii Strilets

Jan 25

🔐 Implementing Feature Flags in React via Permix

#typescript #webdev #permissions #opensource

2 min read

Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Feb 14

Advanced Layouts with Puck 0.18: Harnessing Grid and Flex Containers

#opensource #javascript #react #webdev

18 min read

Jan 11

Certificate Generation using OpenSSL locally

#security #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Feb 14

How I Built Open Source Fastest URL Shortener Ever With Rust

#opensource #programming #tutorial #rust

2 min read

Agastya Malunjkar for GitCorteX

Feb 14

🚀 Supercharge Your GitHub Workflow with GitCorteX: AI-Powered Automation

#github #opensource #ai #githubactions

1 min read

Eduardo Messuti for StatusPal

Feb 11

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

#webdev #devops #ai #opensource

9 min read

iam_flash

Jan 11

The Global South OSC

#github #ai #opensource #developer

1 min read

Softqube Technologies

Jan 11

The Essential Role of Communication in Successful Project Management

#opensource #projectmanagemen

3 min read

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