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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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Cristian Cardoso

Sep 26

Configurando MPLS no OpenBSD com circuito VPLS

#networking #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Sep 26

How AI Agents Unlock New Integration Paradigms Beyond Traditional APIs

#api #opensource #ai #agents

4 min read

T2C for tsquaredc

Sep 26

Model Context Protocol (MCP): What Developers Need to Know

#opensource #tooling #api #ai

2 min read

Sep 26

⚡Here Are 5 GitHub Projects Too Cool to Miss

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Mak Sò

Sep 25

🧠Building AI Beyond the Hype

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #deeplearning

3 min read

OmkarBhede

Sep 26

Keep Your Immich Server Up-to-Date 🚀

#bash #docker #opensource #automation

2 min read

Sep 24

🚀 Bytedocs: A Modern Alternative to Swagger

#api #documentation #ai #opensource

2 min read

SPL Open Source Community

Sep 26

Employees who have accumulated more than 5 years of work experience in New York--SPL Programming Practice

#programming #devops #opensource #spl

2 min read

Havilah Academy

Sep 15

Why You Should Participate in Hackathons

#ai #opensource #datascience #hackathon

2 min read

Sep 25

Shadcn Studio - An Open Source Shadcn/ui Library is Here 🚀

#webdev #shadcn #opensource #webcomponents

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Ayu Adiati

Oct 15

Giving non-code contributions the recognition they deserve

#hacktoberfest #opensource #nocode #codenewbie

4 min read

panfan

Sep 25

Kit — A Privacy-First, Cross-Platform Toolbox with 70+ Utilities

#showdev #privacy #opensource #tooling

3 min read

Simmypeet

Sep 23

Building a Query-Based Incremental Compilation Engine in Rust

#rust #opensource #architecture #tutorial

10 min read

Sep 4

CPK: A Philosophical Practice of Returning to the Essence of Software Packaging and Distribution

#linux #opensource #devops #programming

9 min read

Sep 23

Missing in Modern C++? Event Synchronization Primitive — Areg vs STL vs POCO vs Win32 API

#cpp #opensource #programming #multiplatform

4 min read

Sep 22

Solving PHP's Module Coupling Problem: A Journey Into Modular Architecture

#php #opensource #webdev #architecture

5 min read

Shrijal Acharya for Composio

Sep 24

⚡9 AI Tools you cannot afford to miss in 2025! 🚀🔥

#discuss #productivity #ai #opensource

9 min read

Backend By Dmytro

Sep 24

My First Contribution to Symfony (and Why You Should Start Small in Open Source)

#symfony #php #opensource #backenddevelopment

1 min read

Rafat Alam

Sep 24

🚀 Contribute to MDX Editor — An Open-Source, AI-Powered Markdown + JSX Experience

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #ai

2 min read

Mak Sò

Oct 17

🧠OrKa docs grew up: a YAML-first reference for Agents, Nodes, and Tools

#ai #llm #rag #opensource

4 min read

Mr Punk da Silva

Sep 24

O Código Aberto e a Arquitetura da Ideia: Uma Análise dos Movimentos Open Source e Software Livre

#discuss #programming #opensource #braziliandevs

25 min read

KONI

Sep 24

Async-First Sales OS: Stopping Scope Drift Before It Starts

#ai #chatgpt #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Maddy for Neighbourhoodie

Sep 24

What is CouchDB? #3: Community & Ecosystem

#couchdb #distributedsystems #database #opensource

10 min read

Aug 21

Pack, the new-gen workflow manager

#productivity #python #opensource #linux

2 min read

Chaitrali Kakde

Sep 24

How to Build an AI Telephony Agent: Handle Inbound & Outbound SIP Calls Easily

#ai #python #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

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