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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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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Louis Girifalco

Nov 3

🎃 Quote.Vote Hacktoberfest 2025 — Building Civic Tech, One Pull Request at a Time

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Mr M

Nov 3

Introducing metadata.party: your free and open source metadata API

#discuss #opensource #programming #api

3 min read

Nov 3

Using GNU toolchain for Windows kernel-mode drivers

#microsoft #tutorial #c #opensource

4 min read

Oct 30

🤖 Introducing ALTK, the open-source agent lifecycle toolkit

#altk #opensource #agents #agenticai

6 min read

Santiago Moraga Caldera

Oct 30

Shadcn UI Multi Form — A new version is coming soon!

#opensource #nextjs #shadcnui #frontend

1 min read

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Oct 31

Add Production-Ready Observability to Your AI Agent Workflows in 5 Minutes

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 3

Hacktoberfest 2025 — My First Time as a Contributor 😼

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Nov 2

Writing Your First Compiler - Part 2: What Is a Compiler?

#computerscience #programming #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Havilah Academy

Oct 30

Final Sprint: Just 1 Day Left!

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #hackathon

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Nov 2

From QA to Indie Dev: My Two Years in Hacktoberfest

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

kaifcodec

Oct 29

Created InstaScrape an Async Instagram Comment Scraper, looking for feedbacks and contributions.

#showdev #opensource #python #tooling

2 min read

kanishkrawatt for Requestly

Oct 29

Best Ways to Use Collection Runners for API Workflows

#api #testing #opensource #apiclient

2 min read

Oct 30

Dioc library in Hoppscotch codebase.

#dioc #opensource #service #hoppscotch

3 min read

Kushagra

Oct 30

Spotlight: A Modern Social Media App Built with React Native + Expo

#reactnative #opensource #mobile #buildinpublic

1 min read

Eppie

Oct 30

Eppie, a new open-source cross-platform email client, on Snap Store🐧

#opensource #programming #linux #security

2 min read

John Pagley for Joyfill

Oct 29

The Inspiring Story of the Popular Open-Source Library—Shadcn Form Builder

#programming #opensource #react #buildinpublic

3 min read

Nov 2

Writing Your First Compiler - Part 1: Introduction

#computerscience #programming #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Oluwafemi Adelekan

Oct 30

Deck 11: Free Open‑Source Card Pack for Figma

#figma #opensource #design #productivity

1 min read

MuleRun

Oct 30

MuleRun GACUA: An Open-Source Computer Use Agent That Actually Works

#webdev #ai #opensource #programming

5 min read

Oct 29

Let's Build ExamMate Together - An Open Source Project to Simplify Exam Prep

#opensource #ai #django #react

3 min read

Nov 2

Your Web App Keeps Running in Hidden Tabs — Here’s the Fix

#webdev #react #opensource #performance

4 min read

NocoBase

Oct 30

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

8 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Nov 2

A Pull Request to Purpose

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #programming

2 min read

Oct 29

Get in Line: Customizing Column Order in MudBlazor

#opensource #dotnet #blazor #mudblazor

8 min read

ropzislaw

Oct 29

AIPex: Open Source ChatGPT Atlas Alternative - Automate Your Browser with AI

#opensource

1 min read

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