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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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Jan 20

Increasing Global Developer Coverage for Open-Source Organizations: with Docker and PostgreSQL

#opensource #docker #postgres #database

4 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 20

Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon

#opensource #programming #ai #hackathon

1 min read

Jan 16

Nanuq!

#opensource #kafka #vue #microservices

1 min read

Jan 20

Expressly - Text Transformation App

#showdev #ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Jan 15

What technologies do you recommend for developing an affiliate network marketing platform?

#softwaredevelopment #opensource #architecture

1 min read

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Jan 17

Unleashing AI Agent Potential with Tavily Search in KaibanJS

#javascript #rag #ai #opensource

3 min read

TheoForger

Jan 16

Back For More!

#opensource

3 min read

Jan 16

LogLayer: A Modern Logging Library for TypeScript / JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

3 min read

viraj08

Jan 15

join my project semester simulator

#programming #python #career #opensource

1 min read

Jan 15

KDE vs GNOME vs Others: Choosing the Best Linux Desktop Environment in 2025

#tutorial #opensource #linux #performance

2 min read

Jan 15

assert in Nodejs and its usage in Grida source code

#grida #opensource #nextjs #node

3 min read

Mageshwaran Sekar

Jan 15

Exploring the CNCF Landscape: A Comprehensive Overview of Cloud Native Technologies

#cncf #cloudnative #opensource

2 min read

Dmytro Klimenko

Jan 14

Procrastinator’s Guide to Glory: Turning Wasted Time Into Career Gold with Open Source

#webdev #opensource #tutorial #productivity

3 min read

Jan 14

Train LLM From Scratch

#ai #python #opensource #datascience

1 min read

Jan 14

Have you ever used `git submodules`?

#opensource #nextjs #submodules

3 min read

jake r

Jan 14

Open-Source React Icon Picker: Lightweight, Customizable, and Built with ShadCN, TailwindCSS. Perfect for Next.js Projects!

#nextjs #react #opensource #tailwindcss

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Jan 27

AWS open source newsletter, #206

#opensource #aws

21 min read

Jan 14

Enhance Your App's Security with OTP-Agent

#javascript #security #opensource #programming

2 min read

jldec

Jan 13

3 essential elements for Web publishing

#webdev #contentwriting #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Michael Michaelides

Jan 13

Sign up to our bug bounty platform!

#news #programming #career #opensource

1 min read

Margaret Julian

Jan 17

We launched an open-source Hydrogen theme on Remix

#opensource #frontend

1 min read

Jan 13

lodash._merge vs Defu

#typescript #opensource #lodash #arrays

3 min read

Softqube Technologies

Jan 13

Project Management Excellence: Navigating Towards Successful Outcomes

#opensource #projectmanagemen

3 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 26

Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon

#beginners #programming #ai #opensource

1 min read

Jan 12

Ship mobile apps faster with React-Native-Blossom-UI

#reactnative #uidesign #typescript #opensource

2 min read

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