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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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Sep 12

RAG??? What It Is and Why You Should Care (Especially If You’re a Student)

#ai #productivity #opensource #learning

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Sep 12

🚀 Day 5 of my 90-Day Free Python Script Series! 🐍

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Ayu Adiati

Oct 6

How I Built a Curated, Automated Open Source Portfolio

#opensource #vibecoding #webdev #codenewbie

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Oct 24

DevDunia: All Developer and VAPT Tools in One Place

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

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Oct 10

Hacktoberfest 2025: Open Source Celebration With Cloudinary

#hacktoberfest #cloudinary #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Sep 25

Build a Clean Web3 Storefront in Next.js (Free Template Included)

#web3 #opensource #tutorial #nextjs

2 min read

DASWU

Sep 12

JuiceFS Writeback: The Write Acceleration Mechanism and Its Applicable Scenarios

#ai #opensource

6 min read

本性

Sep 16

ComboLite: Android plugin framework, helping you easily build dynamic applications where "everything is pluggable."

#android #kotlin #pluginframework #opensource

19 min read

artyom7777

Oct 14

Game Engine 3 — A Shell for Visual Game Programming in Python

#programming #software #gamedev #opensource

4 min read

Plínio Balduino

Oct 14

[pt-BR] Depurando um crash de use-after-free no meniOS

#operatingsystem #osdev #ptbr #opensource

6 min read

NocoBase

Sep 12

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

7 min read

Oct 15

What Is Open Source and Why It Matters ?

#opensource #devdiscuss #development #github

2 min read

Cristina Rodriguez

Oct 4

Building SazónBot: A Journey from Family Recipes to AI Chatbot

#nextjs #ai #agentai #opensource

3 min read

Oct 15

Let's Talk About Accessibility (Without the Headache) 🧠😅

#webdev #programming #a11y #opensource

3 min read

Luc_C

Oct 15

Free URL Shortener

#showdev #opensource #tooling

4 min read

SetraTheX

Oct 15

Pagonic: My 10-Month Journey to Build a WinRAR Alternative

#python #vibecoding #ai #opensource

11 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Sep 12

Agile Beyond IT: Lessons for Non-Tech Teams

#agile #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

Sep 12

Deep Doctrine Research: A Latter-day Saint symbolic study of doctrinal themes

#research #philosophy #opensource #notebooklm

1 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Oct 14

Bridging Worlds: AI's Breakthrough in Nepali Sign Language

#a11y #machinelearning #python #opensource

2 min read

Sep 12

DynamoDB Support in GoFr: Supercharging Data Management for Go Applications

#dynamodb #go #opensource #aws

7 min read

Ali Alp

Sep 16

How the live Kubernetes DNS Tunneling Demo Was Scripted ? live at CDS 2025 Conference !

#kubernetes #productivity #opensource #security

4 min read

Akshat Raj

Oct 14

I Built a Mental Wellness AI with Python + Streamlit (Complete Tutorial)

#python #ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Oct 20

AI Weekly #2 — Thanks for the Feedback!

#ai #productivity #automation #opensource

6 min read

SPL Open Source Community

Oct 15

Is SPL more difficult or easier than SQL?

#discuss #programming #opensource #sql

15 min read

Anh Duy

Oct 19

A Handy All-in-One Web Tool That Makes Daily File and Image Tasks Super Easy

#productivity #webdev #opensource #tooling

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