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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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Henry Odinakachukwu

Dec 26 '25

Correcting a Wrong File Name in a Tutorial

#beginners #documentation #github #opensource

1 min read

Dec 26 '25

Updating Screenshots to Match the Current UI

#documentation #opensource #ui

1 min read

Muhamad Firdaus

Dec 26 '25

Building my first open-source project with AI (and what I learned)

#showdev #ai #learning #opensource

1 min read

Jan 30

BaseXConvertor – A Simple & Powerful Number System Converter for Developers

#showdev #webdev #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Suresh

Dec 30 '25

I built a read-only AWS/Azure hygiene scanner (because auto-delete is too risky)

#aws #azure #devops #opensource

5 min read

patrickbloem-it

Dec 30 '25

Self-Hosting Netbird: A Privacy-First Alternative to Managed Overlay Networks

#networking #security #devops #opensource

5 min read

Tongyi Lab

Dec 26 '25

Dec 26, 2025 | The Tongyi Weekly: Your weekly dose of cutting-edge AI from Tongyi Lab

#news #ai #opensource

3 min read

Code Forge Temple

Jan 30

🚀 How I built ScribePal – a Privacy-First AI Local Browser Assistant

#opensource #ai #browserextension #llm

1 min read

RenZX

Jan 30

Help

#programming #python #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Siddhesh Shirdhankar

Dec 30 '25

Tab Wise v2.1.0 is live

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Marycynthia Ihemebiwo

Dec 26 '25

Fixing a Broken Example Link

#beginners #documentation #opensource

1 min read

Abhinav Srivastav

Dec 25 '25

What Actually Slows Down PyTorch Training? I Surveyed ML Engineers

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #developer

2 min read

Dec 25 '25

Print Setu: Print from Browser to USB Printers Without Installing Drivers

#javascript #typescript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Mohit ✨

Jan 30

Subscription Fatigue Got Me. 6 Open-Source Solutions Saved Me $150/month.

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #productivity #ai

6 min read

Dominik Biedebach

Jan 27

Why Discord Sucks for Developer Communities

#discuss #community #developers #opensource

5 min read

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