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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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Software Developer

Oct 17 '25

💰 50 Real Ways Developers Can Earn Money from Open Source (With Links & Practical Tips)

#opensource #beginners #github

5 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Sep 15 '25

Leantime: The Open-Source Project Management Powerhouse You Need!

#project #opensource #kanban #agile

3 min read

Ivan Dalmet for BearStudio

Oct 16 '25

Why did we create ui-state?

#typescript #react #frontend #opensource

3 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Oct 16 '25

Stop Just Contributing to React: A Beginner's Guide to OSS Projects That Actually Want You

#contributorswanted #resources #codenewbie #opensource

7 min read

Sep 18 '25

Built Français Pro: A Technical Deep Dive into Modern French Learning

#nextjs #opensource #firebase #webdev

6 min read

Prabodh Waichal

Oct 18 '25

Mylinux: a minimalist linux distro by a 13 year old

#showdev #linux #performance #opensource

1 min read

PXL - Programming eXperience Lab

Sep 14 '25

CipherVault – Lightweight Browser-Based Encryption Tool

#webdev #javascript #security #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Oct 16 '25

From Contributor to Connector: What Hacktoberfest 2025 Taught Me

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Sep 14 '25

Supacrawler: lightweight, and ultra-fast web scraping api

#opensource #webdev #programming #python

2 min read

Matteo Antony Mistretta

Oct 17 '25

Inglorious Store: a Redux-compatible state manager inspired by ECS

#redux #opensource #react #webdev

4 min read

Denis

Oct 6 '25

Building a Beautiful macOS Cleaner with Python and Rich UI

#python #macos #cli #opensource

5 min read

Shrijith Venkatramana

Sep 18 '25

Postfix vs. Dovecot: Key Differences for Building Email Systems

#programming #productivity #devops #opensource

5 min read

Sivaram

Oct 15 '25

MdBin: Share Beautiful Rendered Markdown Instead of Raw Code

#markdown #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Sep 14 '25

Day 7 of My 90 Days of Python Series

#programming #beginners #opensource #python

1 min read

Nirel Nemirovsky

Sep 14 '25

I Just Released My First Open Source AI Agent Error Remediation Tool

#showdev #tooling #ai #opensource

1 min read

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