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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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TheoForger

Mar 27 '25

Sprint 5 - Mischief Happens

#opensource #beginners #rust

4 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Apr 30 '25

How to Install Qwen 3 Locally?

#qwen3 #opensource #aimodels #ai

6 min read

Apr 30 '25

Padronizando o Caos: Minha jornada com Dotfiles

#dotfiles #opensource #tooling #beginners

3 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 30 '25

Scripting Series – Part 2 of 8

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

Joe Curlee

Mar 27 '25

OpenVoice added to AI Runner

#ai #opensource #python

1 min read

Mar 27 '25

Building EczEase with Cutting-Edge Tech - Build Landing Page

#angular #gcp #openai #opensource

4 min read

Mar 30 '25

Self-Hosting Nextcloud on a Hetzner Ubuntu Server

#cloud #devops #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

SwastikKaushal1

Apr 30 '25

🎉 Introducing PartyPix AI – Your Smart Event Photo Curator! 📸✨

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

1 min read

nahom kasa

Apr 30 '25

I've just released VS extension AI git-Auto-commit v0.1.0 ! - Alt + O = git commit 🎉 No need for you API key.

#webdev #opensource #git #developer

1 min read

Apr 30 '25

How does Suna, an open source generalist AI agent, show tags as part of streaming response?

#opensource #nextjs #agents

3 min read

Mar 27 '25

Self-Host Umami Analytics With Docker Compose

#docker #devops #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Mar 30 '25

5 Awesome ownCloud Alternatives to consider in 2025

#cloud #devops #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Prog. Kanishk Raj

Apr 29 '25

Kickstart Your Web Projects with ProXtyle: A Lightweight CSS Framework

#webdev #css #framework #opensource

1 min read

Jun 8 '25

My First Open Source Contribution

#webdev #programming #opensource #career

2 min read

Apr 18 '25

FastOpenAPI: A Reason to Believe in Open Source Community

#python #openapi #opensource #webdev

3 min read

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