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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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ZigRazor

Nov 7 '25

Building Better State Machines in Modern C++: CXXStateTree

#showdev #cpp #opensource #programming

4 min read

Peter H. Boling

Nov 6 '25

💲FLOSS Funding

#discuss #career #opensource

3 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Oct 17 '25

LobeChat: Where Bots Write 23% of the Code and Reviews Take 42 Seconds

#ai #chatgpt #opensource #openai

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 2 '25

How Being Part of a Community Took Me from Hesitant to 5 PRs Merged

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Ben-David Samuel

Oct 27 '25

Introducing LinuxCommandHub: Your Free Guide to Linux Mastery

#opensource #linux #cybersecurity #beginners

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Jessica Temporal

Oct 6 '25

Field Notes: Hacktoberfest 2025, Week 1

#hacktoberfest #git #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Jefferson Otoni Lima

Oct 4 '25

Quick Framework e algumas Melhorias de Performance

#backend #opensource #performance #go

6 min read

perber

Nov 7 '25

LeafWiki Devlog #5: v0.4.9 - Mermaid Diagrams, Page Copy & Easier Setup 🚀

#go #opensource #devjournal

2 min read

Nikolás C. Meléndez

Nov 6 '25

🚀 Meet Telelinker: A CLI Tool to Extract and Analyze Links from Telegram Groups

#python #cli #opensource #telegram

3 min read

AskPaul

Oct 8 '25

Building a Prediction Market App with MiroFlow: A Technical Deep Dive

#ai #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Lymah

Oct 30 '25

Hacktoberfest 2025 Reflection: Three Years, Three Lessons, One Evolution

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

7 min read

Nov 4 '25

I Open-Sourced My Production Git Config (And You Should Steal It)

#tooling #git #productivity #opensource

3 min read

zevnda

Oct 26 '25

Steam Game Idler — an Open-Source Alternative to ArchiSteamFarm, Steam Achievement Manager, and Idle Master.

#opensource #gamedev #typescript #rust

4 min read

Oct 4 '25

Why GitHub to AI Ingester Exists: The Repository Verification Gap

#github #ai #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Kyle Homen

Oct 3 '25

OSD600 Lab 4

#cpp #cli #opensource

4 min read

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