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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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Chen Debra

Apr 3 '25

GSoC 2025 is here! Apache DolphinScheduler needs YOUR proposals!

#google #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #programming

4 min read

Abdulrasheed Abdulsalam

Mar 20 '25

What is Developer Relations and Why is it Important?

#devrel #opensource #softwareengineering

2 min read

Apr 20 '25

Top 7+ Free Next.js Admin Dashboard Templates - 2025

#nextjs #webdev #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Miki Makhlevich

Apr 22 '25

The Very First MCP Generator to Support Auth!

#mcp #python #fastapi #opensource

2 min read

NocoBase

Apr 23 '25

How to Implement CRM Sales Pipeline Visualization in NocoBase?

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #crm

6 min read

Mar 24 '25

What’s missing in API testing tools today?

#api #opensource #devto #testing

1 min read

Mar 19 '25

Unveiling the X Consortium License: A New Era of Fair Code

#xconsortiumlicense #opensource #faircode

3 min read

Apr 15 '25

From Frustration to Feature: The Open Source Magic

#watercooler #opensource

4 min read

Apr 22 '25

🚀PushForge: Modern Web Push Notifications Made Simple🚀

#opensource #webdev #typescript #npm

6 min read

Eleftheria Stein-Kousathana for Stacklok

Apr 22 '25

Announcing the LLM Security Leaderboard: Evaluating AI Models Through a Security Lens

#ai #security #opensource

2 min read

Saksham Awasthi

Apr 22 '25

I Was About to Run terraform apply - Then I Saw the Price Tag

#terraform #aws #devops #opensource

6 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 22 '25

Mastering vi Editor in Linux: A Simple Guide for Real-World Use

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #redhat

3 min read

Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

Apr 22 '25

Why Linux? Why Now? (30-Day RHCSA + Ansible Journey)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #linux #devops

1 min read

Apr 22 '25

Introducing Yummunity: An Open-Source Recipe Discovery Social Platform

#angular #webdev #sideprojects #opensource

3 min read

Emmanuel Cartelli

Apr 12 '25

Extracting Tailwind’s Color Palette Without Tailwind

#tailwindcss #css #opensource #cli

3 min read

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