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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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Seven

Jun 9

Four GitHub Projects That Turn AI Into Design Deliverables

#ai #opensource #design

2 min read

Stephen

Jun 8

We Made Cron Speak Plain English, Then Open-Sourced It

#opensource #javascript #typescript #ai

7 min read

Haoxuan Hu

Jun 9

I built a zero-dependency WordPress glossary tooltip plugin

#showdev #webdev #opensource #php

1 min read

Jun 8

Building an agentic Jira automation platform with MCP and Temporal

#ai #mcp #python #opensource

3 min read

Jun 8

acroforge: turn a flat PDF into a real fillable AcroForm, with a deterministic core and zero copyleft

#showdev #python #opensource #pdf

6 min read

RahulD

Jun 9

Building a QR Code SaaS (QRGenLabs) — Looking for Honest Feedback

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

Jun 8

AgentTrust ID is live

#ai #security #opensource #python

2 min read

Jun 8

When TCP failed for IoT, I wrote a new protocol

#iot #networking #go #opensource

4 min read

albe_sf

Jun 8

Snowflake's Arctic Model is a Bet on Enterprise-Specific AI

#ai #llm #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

David 3289

Jun 8

I Built ForgeLite: A Lightweight Git Forge

#showdev #git #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Jun 9

Why Most Students Never Make Their First Open-Source Contribution

#beginners #codenewbie #learning #opensource

2 min read

崔小涣

Jun 13

AI Gateways in 2026: a field guide to the 106 cost problem

#ai #llm #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Jun 11

Building a Sovereign Home Server: Lessons Learned Running Nextcloud, Euro-Office, and Frigate on a Raspberry Pi 5

#iot #linux #opensource #performance

4 min read

Jun 8

I Built a Tool That Finds Package Equivalents Across Programming Languages

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Robin for Capawesome

Jun 8

Announcing Cordova Support in Capawesome Cloud

#mobile #ionic #javascript #opensource

3 min read

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