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.

Feb 24

Why Every Developer Needs a Powerful Project Management Tool Like Teamcamp

#beginners #devops #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Suraj Singh Bisht

Jan 21

Join the SSB Community – Open Source Projects Await! 🚀

#opensource #contributorswanted #beginners #learning

1 min read

Feb 24

Art Blocks and the Future of Open Source with Blockchain

#blockchain #generativeart #opensource

2 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Feb 12

i built fastest url shortener ever with Rust. it's open source

#opensource #rust #tutorial #programming

1 min read

Oleksandr Viktor

Feb 13

UkrGuru.Sql: Minimal Effort, Maximum Results!

#csharp #sqlserver #webdev #opensource

1 min read

abozanona

Feb 23

Customize Your GitHub Profile with a Custom Pac-Man Contribution Graph

#githubprofile #opensource #pacman #webdev

4 min read

Feb 23

Why Deployment is a Nightmare for Developers (and How to Make It Easier)

#cicd #webdev #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Isah Jacob

Feb 23

Best Open Source CRM

#programming #opensource #crm #opensourcecrm

3 min read

Feb 23

Simplifier le développement de newsletters responsives avec MJML

#webdev #programming #opensource #css

2 min read

Isah Jacob

Feb 23

Outreachy Call for June 2025 Cohort mentoring.

#opensource #outreachy #contributorswanted

5 min read

Vasudevan Tamilarasan

Feb 23

My First open-source meeting.

#webdev #programming #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Feb 23

🚀 Open-Source Product Review Platform – Spotta NG Review Project

#react #firebase #opensource #webdev

1 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Feb 23

MegaParse: Your One-Stop Solution for Effortless Document Parsing

#python #parsing #document #opensource

3 min read

Sujith S for Zackriya Solutions

Feb 23

Best Self-Hosted AI Meeting Note-Taker App (Free & Open-Source)

#selfhosted #ai #opensource #react

2 min read

Feb 23

Blockchain and Academic Credentials: A New Era in Education

#opensource #blockchain #academiccredentialing #educationtechnology

2 min read

Jan 20

All Data and AI Weekly - 20 Jan 2025

#opensource #genai #snowflake #apachenifi

2 min read

marvellous kayode

Feb 27

A Beginner's Guide To Accounting Terms Every Student should Know:

#tech #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Jean-Christophe Bianic

Jan 24

Building flask-jeroboam: bringing a taste of FastAPI to Flask

#flask #opensource #fastapi

3 min read

SASHANKAR BHUYAN

Feb 22

Can Someone Help Me Build My Website for my startup? I Need Guidance!

#help #opensource #webdevhelp #beginners

1 min read

Codanyks

Feb 23

🚀 "Oops! Something Went Wrong" – Handling API Errors in Express.js Like a Pro

#wthek #node #opensource #codanyks

3 min read

Przemysław Orłowski

Feb 23

ShadeView 2 - First Complete Shader Helper - VSCode

#javascript #node #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Matija Sosic for Wasp

Feb 11

🚨GIVEAWAY🚨 - Help us reach 15,000 stars and win our Ultimate Swag Pack! 🐝 👕

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Feb 20

Open Source in Web3 and Decentralized Applications for 2025: A New Era of Innovation

#programming #opensource #blockchain #web3

3 min read

Abhiraj Adhikary

Jan 19

My Contribution to Kharagpur Winter of Code 2024 (KWOC)

#kwoc #opensource #github

2 min read

Anas Ismail Khan

Feb 22

My second contribution to ASP.NET Core OData

#opensource #microsoft #csharp #aspnetcoreodata

4 min read

loading...