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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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Vin Cooper

Mar 6 '25

WebSockets 101: Simple Explanation and First Project in 5 Minutes

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

2 min read

xrc

Mar 6 '25

Introducing Code Review Best Practices Repository

#codereview #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D for Microsoft Azure

Mar 10 '25

#ModelMondays - A Weekly Series To Build Our AI Model IQ

#ai #python #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Team TigerData for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Mar 6 '25

5 Critical Questions to Ask Before Investing in a Time-Series Database for Industrial IoT

#devops #datascience #database #opensource

3 min read

Sergey Nikolaev

Jan 31 '25

Manticore Search 7.0.0: Smarter Search, Real-Time Syncing, and Enhanced Performance

#opensource #github

4 min read

NocoBase

Mar 6 '25

Why Open-Source Alternatives Are Replacing OutSystems in 2025?

#lowcode #opensource #nocode #developer

4 min read

Mar 6 '25

mangle.json in Preact source code.

#manglejson #opensource #react #preact

3 min read

NocoBase

Mar 6 '25

How to use API Keys in NocoBase to retrieve data

#nocode #lowcode #opensource #api

7 min read

Alesia S.

Mar 4 '25

Awesome AI Software Development Agents List!

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

jy95

Jan 30 '25

FHIR Dosage Support - Turn HAPI FHIR Dosage into human readable text in your desired language and much more

#java #opensource #fhir #productivity

1 min read

fmerian

Mar 2 '25

Who's hiring? — March 2025

#career #devrel #writing #opensource

2 min read

TailAdmin

Mar 3 '25

10+ Best Analytics Dashboard Templates for 2025

#discuss #webdev #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Josiah

Mar 5 '25

Weird space graphics maybe

#discuss #programming #opensource #graphics

1 min read

Pavel Sanikovich

Mar 5 '25

Introducing TMA Starter Kit: Your Fast Track to Building Telegram Mini Apps

#go #opensource #vue #startup

4 min read

Jefferson Rodrigues for Lerian

Mar 5 '25

What is Double Entry and how to use it on a financial operation

#midaz #go #opensource #backend

6 min read

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