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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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Jul 13 '25

GSoC Week 6: Deep Diving into the Interactive Book Issue

#opensource #flutter #dart

3 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Jul 13 '25

Natural Language Processing from Basics to Advanced: The Complete Guide for Innovators

#ai #devtools #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Satyam Chourasiya

Jul 13 '25

Mastering Regex in NLP: From Tokenization to Advanced Pattern Mining

#ai #opensource #devtools #machinelearning

6 min read

marcosomma

Jul 13 '25

🧠 How AI Agents Learned to Agree Through Structured Debate

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

8 min read

tsuruko

Jul 13 '25

[Python] Smarter Conditions, Still No Ifs—Triggon Just Got Better

#python #opensource #automation #programming

2 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 23 '25

Earl dan Erlang: Dua Bahasa, Dua Dunia

#programming #opensource #devjournal #indonesia

2 min read

Pavel

Jul 2 '25

I Got Tired of Build Tools, So I Built a JS Framework for Instant UI Prototyping

#javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Jun 9 '25

🧬 Symbiotic Key — Discovery of a Metalinguistic Prompting Engine

#opensource #ai #promptengineering #github

2 min read

Jul 13 '25

GSoC Week 5: Markdown broke, CI/CD woke

#opensource #flutter #dart

4 min read

Jul 13 '25

Why do you contribute to Open Source? What is your motivation?

#opensource #beginners #programming #career

2 min read

Imran Khan

Jul 13 '25

Looking for Hackathon Squad

#hackathon #programming #opensource #career

1 min read

Jul 13 '25

Under the Hood: Chronos Vault's Triple-Chain Defense System Explained

#blockchain #web3 #security #opensource

5 min read

Randall

Jul 12 '25

How I Host a Bot in 50,000 Discord Servers For Free

#discord #javascript #opensource #programming

9 min read

ZIPPO

Jul 13 '25

Looking for a full-stack Django project idea that’s actually useful, and looks amazing in your portfolio?

#webdev #javascript #opensource #django

1 min read

Cassidy Williams

Jul 25 '25

Tools using tools

#ai #opensource

2 min read

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