Skip to content

DEV Community

Open Source

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.

submission guidelines

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

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

Arek Nawo

Jan 6 '19

Coding controversy

#javascript #opensource #story #experience

7 min read

Dec 31 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (Dec 31st edition)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Jan 6 '19

Markor : 📘 Write Quickly ✏

#githunt #opensource #android #productivity

1 min read

Jan 7 '19

Multi-tabs, Flickity gallery, Purchase cards & more | Module Monday 24

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Srushtika Neelakantam for Ably

Jan 2 '19

Set your data free by participating in our Open Data Streaming program

#showdev #opensource #learning #contributorswanted

3 min read

Jan 20 '19

¿Por qué usar Software Libre?

#opensource #linux

19 min read

Andy Zhao (he/him) for The DEV Team

Jan 2 '19

dev.to Repo Recap from the Past Week

#changelog #meta #opensource

3 min read

Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Dec 25 '18

🎄🎁 DEV10 🎁🎄: A Christmas Gift for the Best Community on 🌍

#meta #opensource #javascript #productivity

2 min read

Dec 30 '18

brain.js - Neural networks in JavaScript

#javascript #githunt #neuralnetworks #opensource

1 min read

Jan 1 '19

repo-lister, a simple way to get an overview of repositories

#showdev #webdev #react #opensource

7 min read

Dec 28 '18

Hyperscript Tagged Markup (HTM): JSX alternative using standard tagged templates, with compiler support.

#githunt #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 4 '19

Ryan Bigg on Imposter Syndrome and Becoming a Senior Developer

#career #opensource #leadership #culture

2 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Jan 1 '19

Openmoji - Open Source Emojis For Everyone

#showdev #githunt #emoji #opensource

1 min read

Dec 29 '18

rrweb: record and replay the web

#githunt #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Jan 4 '19

Introducing Visual GraphQL Editor - draw your GraphQL schema

#showdev #graphql #opensource #githunt

1 min read

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.