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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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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

MD ARIFUL HAQUE

Oct 23 '25

Open Source Reflections – Hacktoberfest 2025

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

alott2223

Oct 28 '25

cyber container platform

#webdev #docker #programming #opensource

1 min read

Prisca Onwudebelu Ebubechukwu

Nov 27 '25

How to Find Beginner-Friendly Open Source Projects (Without Feeling Overwhelmed)

#opensource #beginners #frontend #webdev

2 min read

Oct 22 '25

Music Visualizer with Animated Color Themes Created via ChatGPT Prompts

#showdev #dsp #fft #opensource

2 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Nov 6 '25

Supercharge Your Customer Management: Why Krayin CRM is the Open-Source Laravel Project You Need

#laravel #vue #crm #opensource

3 min read

Oct 23 '25

The Future of Memarya: Our Roadmap and How You Can Help Build It

#webdev #programming #opensource #productivity

2 min read

marcosomma

Nov 23 '25

Don Quixote Of Orchestration: Building For Problems No One Sees Yet

#ai #opensource #programming #resources

6 min read

Amogetswe Mashele

Oct 26 '25

A lightweight secrets scanner that catches exposed keys before they reach GitHub

#devops #security #python #opensource

2 min read

Marc Anton Dahmen

Nov 6 '25

Building Sortable Tree — A Lightweight Drag & Drop Tree in Vanilla TypeScript

#webdev #typescript #development #opensource

3 min read

Oct 27 '25

Why I am Building an alternative to PostgREST

#webdev #sql #opensource #database

5 min read

NocoBase

Oct 23 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

NocoBase

Nov 6 '25

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimization and Bug Fixes

#news #opensource #lowcode #nocode

9 min read

xywa23

Nov 26 '25

I Built a 'Sudo' Command for AI Agents (and Why You Need It)

#ai #python #opensource #security

4 min read

Oct 23 '25

ts-dedent library in Storybook codebase.

#typescript #opensource #dident #storybook

2 min read

Oct 22 '25

Building a System Health Tool That Actually Explains What's Wrong (Not Just "Error Code 0x0000004E")

#opensource #devops #systems #productivity

2 min read

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