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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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Feb 26

Flutter MediaPlayer

#flutter #dart #opensource

1 min read

Apr 1

DevOps Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Best Open-Source DevOps Projects to Contribute in 2025

#devops #opensource #devopscommunity #beginners

3 min read

Anna Zilfugharyan

Mar 21

10 Best Customer Service Chatbots for Your Business in 2025

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #automation

8 min read

Jean-Gaël

Apr 1

Introducing RatingAPI - Scalable, Secure & Open Source!

#fastapi #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

Apr 1

Smart Strategies for Cost Reduction App Modernization

#opensource #refactoring #cloudcomputing #infrastructure

4 min read

Apr 1

WebRTCPeerProvider component in FilePizza codebase.

#javascript #opensource #webrtc #filepizza

3 min read

Mar 30

5 Awesome Nextcloud Alternatives

#cloud #devops #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Mar 30

Self-Hosting ownCloud on a Hetzner Ubuntu Server

#cloud #devops #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Apr 1

Liam ERD: Reinventing Database Visualization

#erd #liamerd #database #opensource

6 min read

Feb 25

Talk 2 AI Agent Using LOLANG: The Future of AI-to-AI Communication 🤖💬

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

3 min read

Alok Rawat

Apr 1

Creative Work: ChatGPT-4 and the Future of Design

#chatgpt #ai #programming #opensource

3 min read

dexter

Feb 27

fMP4 Technology Implementation and Application Based on HLS v7

#programming #go #opensource

12 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Feb 25

Revolutionize Your Secret Management with Infisical: The Open-Source Solution You've Been Waiting For!

#secret #opensource #devops #security

3 min read

pling77

Feb 25

TUI-based extension for the Chocolatey package manager

#news #programming #opensource #go

1 min read

Michael Interface

Mar 31

How to Use Pytest for Exception Testing: Insights from Open Source Projects

#python #opensource #programming #testing

5 min read

Ricardo Domínguez González

Mar 31

Construyendo Mi Nube Personal: Lecciones Aprendidas en Next cloud y Apache

#ubuntu #opensource #nextcloud #mariadb

7 min read

Михаил Терновецкий

Feb 25

Create Website Moldova: Key Steps for a Successful Online Presence

#website #webdev #opensource #programming

2 min read

Chen Debra

Feb 25

Look Here! Apache DolphinScheduler Version Upgrade Guide

#programming #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #datascience

3 min read

Feb 24

esProc SPL & MongoDB: A Match Made in Data Heaven

#mongodb #database #opensource #esprocspl

3 min read

Mar 31

FilePizza, a peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser.

#filepizza #opensource #webrtc #upload

2 min read

Bap

Mar 26

🚀 AI Native Dev Landscape Just Dropped (and it's open source)

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Bartolomeo Hart

Feb 26

Wishlist: Transform Idea’s into Awesome Stuff

#opensource #community #awesome #ideas

3 min read

Bruh Buh

Feb 24

Discover the Future: Trending GitHub Projects Shaping Tech Innovation 🚀

#github #opensource #programming #python

14 min read

Bruh Buh

Feb 24

Discover the Future: Trending GitHub Projects Revolutionizing Tech 🌟

#github #opensource #programming #python

13 min read

Feb 24

Beeple Genesis on Arbitrum: A New Chapter in the NFT Revolution

#opensource #beeple #arbitrum #nfts

2 min read

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