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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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Hasan

Feb 3

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

#ai #opensource #deepseek #rag

1 min read

Philipp

Jan 24

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

#career #opensource #frontend #tooling

3 min read

Thevie Mortiniera

Feb 13

Google chrome inactive tabs extension

#javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Judy

Jan 24

Cross-Database Migratable Reports--SPL Reporting

#database #programming #devops #opensource

10 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 13

Open Source Data Engineering Landscape 2025

#dataengineering #opensource #apacheddolphinscheduler #database

14 min read

Ramiro for Metabase

Feb 13

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

#metabase #opensource #dataviz #analytics

7 min read

dage212

Jan 10

SourceCodeDocs website has been established

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Feb 13

DeepSeek Extension for GitHub Copilot in VS Code 🚀

#vscode #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Feb 13

How to remove a file in Node.js?

#javascript #opensource #react #typescript

3 min read

Uday R

Feb 2

My Plans In Open Source This Week

#opensource

2 min read

Feb 2

The Tools and APIs That Made My GeoGuessr 🌍 Project Possible

#webdev #react #opensource #gamedev

4 min read

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

8 min read

Neurolov

Feb 13

Introducing Neurolov Neuro Image Gen

#showdev #programming #news #opensource

1 min read

Sujith S for Zackriya Solutions

Feb 13

Meetily : A Free & Open Source, Privacy first Ai for taking meeting notes and meeting minutes

#discuss #ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Feb 13

How to Install & Run VideoLLaMA3-7B Locally

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

Feb 19

Top 5️⃣ Debugging Tools🧐

#webdev #programming #testing #opensource

4 min read

Arindam Majumder

Feb 7

⚡️Top 10 Project Management Tools Trending in 2025 🔥

#opensource #productivity #programming #beginners

13 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Feb 13

10 Super Underrated Open-Source Tools You Don’t Want to Miss in 2025 🚀

#opensource #webdev #itconsulting #techtools

2 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 10

🌷Creating an SSR Gallery App in JavaScript

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

9 min read

NocoBase

Feb 13

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#nocode #lowcode #opensource #github

5 min read

Elanat Framework

Feb 12

Welcome WebForms Core Technology to R: A New Era Begins

#r #github #opensource #webformscore

4 min read

Feb 12

Open source Next.js Developer Portfolio Template [Modern + Responsive]

#nextjs #opensource #template #starter

3 min read

Feb 24

Bippy, a toolkit to hack into react internals.

#opensource #bippy #react #devtools

4 min read

Feb 13

Why Every Developer Should Work on Open Source or Side Projects? How Personal Projects Boost Learning & Career Growth?

#career #sideprojects #opensource #developers

4 min read

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