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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.

submission guidelines

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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Nov 15 '25

From Desktop Frustration to Internet Standard in 3 Months

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Nov 5 '25

The State of Apache Iceberg, Polaris, and Arrow: October–November 2025

#news #dataengineering #database #opensource

7 min read

Nov 16 '25

From Problem to Product 🤔 : School Library Tracking System with Laravel v📚💻!

#webdev #laravel #opensource #programming

2 min read

Thiago Massari Guedes

Nov 17 '25

Compiling Window Maker in a Debian-based OS

#linux #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Oct 13 '25

A DNS server that offers useful utilities and services over the DNS protocol.

#showdev #go #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Nov 17 '25

SlimPDF - A Lightweight and Privacy-Friendly PDF Compressor

#python #productivity #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Nov 5 '25

Feature Release 0.54.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#opensource #githubaction #release

1 min read

Laura Weatherhead

Nov 10 '25

Umbraco in the City - Community, Code, and Cuddles

#webdev #ai #opensource

3 min read

Oct 26 '25

I Built A Free Developer Toolkit with 20+ Developer Tools

#webdev #developer #resources #opensource

1 min read

Nov 17 '25

From Proprietary Grey Zone to Open Source: Hyvä Theme’s Licensing Journey

#hyva #magneto #opensource #adobe

5 min read

Emmanuel Victor

Oct 25 '25

Smart_Store: A Modern C++ API for Scalable Inventory and Object Management

#career #architecture #opensource #cpp

5 min read

Esteban Gallardo

Nov 4 '25

Building a Digital Twin Office with Unity, WebGL, and AI — The Workflow Simulator Project

#gamedev #opensource #ai #webdev

1 min read

Can Mingir for Centaur AI

Nov 5 '25

📢 New Series: Neuro-Symbolic Wednesday

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #llm

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Nov 2 '25

A Pull Request to Purpose

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #programming

2 min read

Nivesh Padamata

Nov 2 '25

My First Open Source Journey

#opensource #github #contribution #openai

5 min read

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