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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 15 '25

🚀 Meet OptiFolio: The Modern Dev Portfolio Template Built for YOU!

#webdev #opensource #11ty #portfolio

3 min read

TiLoKit

Aug 13 '25

Introducing TiLoKit 🚀 – a universal Golang CLI to scaffold projects across frameworks

#cli #opensource #softwaredevelopment #showcase

1 min read

Arun Krish

Aug 13 '25

Start Open Source Contributions Now!

#opensource #beginners #github #community

2 min read

Aug 13 '25

The brink of new AI standard

#news #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Aug 13 '25

This Open Source Python Tool Replaces Your $2,000/Month Portfolio Tracker

#opensource #python #programming #ai

1 min read

Anthony4m

Aug 12 '25

Compiler Season: How I Built a Programming Language and Found a Community 🚀

#compiler #languagedesign #opensource #learning

6 min read

Roman Muslikhov

Jul 23 '25

Github

#github #automation #devops #opensource

1 min read

Aug 11 '25

Building Nexa Research Agent: An AI-Powered Deep Research Platform from Scratch

#computerscience #nlp #programming #opensource

5 min read

Elizabeth Mattijsen

Aug 10 '25

Towards more accountability of Raku programs

#rakulang #opensource #cra

3 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Aug 11 '25

How to Install & Run GPT-OSS 20b and 120b GGUF Locally?

#gptoss #openai #opensource #ai

7 min read

sarim2000

Aug 11 '25

How I Built a Privacy-First Expense Tracker with 100% On-Device AI

#android #kotlin #ai #opensource

2 min read

Aug 18 '25

9 Open Source Gems Every Developer Should Know 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

marcosomma

Aug 10 '25

🧠OrKa onboarding: example suite, guided tour, and trace replay

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #deeplearning

10 min read

Aug 11 '25

🚨 Introducing GemGuard: Automated Security for Ruby Gems (Scan, SBOM, Typosquat, Auto-Fix)

#ruby #security #devops #opensource

3 min read

marcosomma

Aug 25 '25

💻MCP: Protocol as Product, Hype as Standard

#mcp #ai #opensource #developer

4 min read

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