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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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Brad Micklea for Jozu

Jan 23

What’s Next for the KitOps Project

#news #opensource #programming #ai

4 min read

Pratham

Jan 25

A Guide to Choosing the Right License on GitHub for Developers and Creators

#github #opensource #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Jan 24

Getting Started in the .NET Open Source Community: A Beginner’s Guide

#dotnet #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Sudhanshu

Jan 24

Open-Source Table Extraction Tool: Extract Structured Data from Documents with OCR and Computer Vision

#huggingface #paddleocr #opensource #documentprocessing

2 min read

TheoForger

Jan 24

Sprint 1 - So Far so Good

#opensource #rust #beginners

4 min read

Awa

Dec 21 '24

Context Dump: Simplifying AI File Preparation

#cli #javascript #ai #opensource

1 min read

Sharif

Dec 21 '24

Revolutionize Your Flutter Apps with These Top Cross-Platform CMS Solutions

#flutter #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Jasmine Mae for Fermyon

Jan 24

Spin Joins CNCF Sandbox: Strengthening Adoption and Benefits for Organizations and Developers

#kubernetes #spinkube #opensource

3 min read

Muhammad Aqib Bin Azam

Jan 24

Building a Simple and Efficient Language Translator for Your Projects

#opensource #translation #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Pizofreude

Jan 24

Notes on Data Engineering Zoomcamp 2025 - Launch Stream

#dataengineering #dezoomcamp #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Open Source SPL

Jan 24

Cross-Database Migratable Reports--SPL Reporting

#database #programming #devops #opensource

10 min read

Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Jan 23

Revolutionizing Drag-and-Drop in React: Introducing Puck 0.18

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

9 min read

Jan 24

__useInternal() in Grida codebase.

#javascript #opensource #figma #nextjs

3 min read

Imam Ali Mustofa

Jan 23

Seeking Support for Something Useful

#opensource #sponsor #webdev #programming

2 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 23

Kick Off Stream. Wrapped Up… Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon.

#opensource #ai #hackathon #programming

2 min read

hervé ishimwe for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jan 24

Best Open-Source AI Model: Experimenting With Phi-4 and Ollama in PostgreSQL

#ai #opensource #postgres #testing

8 min read

VISDOM 04

Jan 23

DeepSeek-R1 vs. OpenAI o1: Which AI Reasoning Model Dominates in 2025?

#ai #opensource #chatgpt #openai

5 min read

Datamonk

Jan 23

Data Orchestration Tool Analysis: Airflow, Dagster, Flyte

#dataengineering #tooling #python #opensource

7 min read

rafrafek

Jan 23

Building an Availability Checker for Refurbished Steam Decks in Europe

#python #programming #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Abhay

Dec 20 '24

My Experience at Build Bengaluru 2024

#opensource #rag #machinelearning #ai

2 min read

Crypto.Andy (DEV)

Jan 23

The future of open-source monetization: trends and predictions 💥

#opensource #webdev #programming #github

3 min read

Valerii Strilets

Jan 23

🔐 Modern Type-Safe Permissions Management via Permix

#webdev #typescript #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Prasad Bhalerao

Jan 23

How to Publish a Python Package on PyPI Without Exposing Your Source Code 😉

#python #opensource

3 min read

Jan 23

🎉 TailwindCSS v4.0 Starter Kit – Simplify Your Design System Customization 🚀

#tailwindcss #v4 #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Jan 23

toolbar_value_to_cursormode function in Grida codebase

#opensource #nextjs #figma #toolbar

2 min read

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