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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.

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

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

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Open Source Reflections — My Hacktoberfest 2025 Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

2 min read

shambhavi525-sudo

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The Truth About Open Source: It's Intimidating (Until You Start)

#github #tutorial #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Hitesh Sachdeva

Nov 1 '25

Wrapping Up Hacktoberfest 2025

#programming #opensource #hacktoberfest #learning

3 min read

Nov 11 '25

Analysing European Soccer Data with Deepnote in Windsurf IDE

#data #deepnote #opensource #soccer

7 min read

Oct 9 '25

No More Broken Image Paths! Meet assets-mapper for React & Next.js 🚀

#react #nextjs #npm #opensource

2 min read

Oct 9 '25

Qualcomm acquires Arduino to accelerate developer access to AI solutions

#news #ai #opensource #iot

2 min read

Can Mingir for Centaur AI

Nov 12 '25

Can/Will LLMs Learn to Reason?

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #llm

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Sergiy Yevtushenko

Oct 8 '25

Pragmatica Lite

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Brandon Bennett

Nov 5 '25

Federated app store for self-hosted AI agents (Apache-2.0)

#ai #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

dejanualex

Oct 8 '25

Not All OSS Is Created Equal

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Bewaker AI

Oct 7 '25

Building Cryptographic Guardrails for AI-Assisted Coding

#vscode #security #ai #opensource

3 min read

Harshal Rembhotkar

Oct 8 '25

SigNoz case study

#monitoring #devops #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Code Forge Temple

Nov 11 '25

🚀 How I built a small tool to track GitHub star growth over time

#github #analytics #android #opensource

2 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Nov 12 '25

Top 9 Lightstep (ServiceNow) Alternatives in 2025 (And How to Migrate)

#monitoring #opensource #tooling

12 min read

Godfrey Omoregie

Oct 8 '25

Python Variables & Data Types Explained

#python #programming #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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