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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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Aniket Raj

Aug 6 '25

It's Alive! Project KARL is Now Open Source.

#showdev #kotlin #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jul 31 '25

Using GitHub Copilot to Manage Issues (and Save Time)

#githubcopilot #productivity #opensource #management

3 min read

Lauren Lee for Devs of Midnight

Aug 1 '25

The Midnight Community Board: Building With the Community, Not Just For It

#web3 #devrel #community #opensource

2 min read

Necati Özmen for VoltAgent

Aug 5 '25

100+ Claude Code Subagent Collection

#webdev #llm #opensource #ai

10 min read

Wycliffe A. Onyango

Aug 5 '25

100 Days of DevOps: Day 2

#linux #devops #bash #opensource

1 min read

Aug 5 '25

🚀 Just Launched: My New Project is Live!

#python #opensource #ai #devjournal

1 min read

Valery Zinchenko

Aug 5 '25

Transparent NodeParent Without Wapprer: a new DOM Node

#showdev #opensource #tooling #frontend

3 min read

RisingWave Labs

Aug 5 '25

RisingWave Newsletter July 2025

#news #rust #opensource #database

4 min read

omilli

Aug 5 '25

Build an App with HellaJS

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

4 min read

Aug 5 '25

🌱 From .NET Developer to Building My Own Programming Language in Tamil

#python #ai #opensource #tamil

2 min read

Vanessa Johnson for Gradle Community

Aug 4 '25

Enhanced Kotlin Code Quality Reporting with the Gradle Problems API

#gradle #opensource #kotlin #gsoc

3 min read

Kevin B

Aug 4 '25

Local Privacy First MCP server for Llama.cpp

#ai #go #opensource #mcp

1 min read

Aki for AWS Community Builders

Aug 4 '25

Building a CLI Tool to Visualize AWS Iceberg Table Snapshot History

#aws #iceberg #opensource

7 min read

jxlee007

Aug 4 '25

Why I’m Ditching OpenCode and Moving to Gemini CLI

#gemini #terminal #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Jun 30 '25

🌟 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Freelancing as a Teen Designer

#opensource #career #coding #ai

2 min read

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