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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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Cristian Paul Castañeda

Jul 29 '25

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

Kenta Goto for AWS Heroes

Jul 30 '25

Easily Delete S3 Vectors with cls3

#aws #s3 #opensource

3 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 26 '25

Introduction to project management (for beginners)

#opensource #programming #devtools #github

3 min read

Sarah Nyambura Kiiru

Jun 26 '25

My Journey Into Git, GitHub & Version Control 💻

#git #github #opensource #versioncontrol

2 min read

Jun 26 '25

# Secure the Future: Dive into Innovations in Digital Archiving

#coding #archiving #datapreservation #opensource

2 min read

Atharv Remeshan

Jul 30 '25

Rate my first Front-end project

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

1 min read

Jun 26 '25

# Level Up Your Community Impact: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Public Libraries Webinar

#tech #libraries #opensource #community

2 min read

Luis Gustavo S. Barreto

Jul 29 '25

drera-labs: Terminal website

#webdev #opensource #linux #cli

3 min read

TROJAN

Jul 29 '25

MIA – The AI Assistant That Might Replace You (or Just Roast You)

#python #opensource #ai #fastapi

1 min read

kobaltGIT

Jul 29 '25

I Built a Telegram Bot That Remembers Everything But Knows Nothing About You

#python #telegram #opensource #privacy

4 min read

Ryan Casey

Jun 25 '25

AI Powered Honeypot

#ai #python #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Emmanuel

Jul 30 '25

Never Sleep Again: How I Built AwakeLock, a Robust, Multi-Layered Solution for Web Wake Locks

#webdev #opensource #typescript #softwareengineering

6 min read

Saksham Kushwaha

Jun 26 '25

building the CLI tool that I wish shadcn/ui had

#webdev #cli #productivity #opensource

4 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 26 '25

Project risk management strategies

#opensource #webdev #softwaredevelopment #projectrisks

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 26 '25

Mengenal Daftar (Array) dalam Bahasa Pemrograman Earl

#programming #opensource #beginners #indonesia

2 min read

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