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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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Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Apr 1

Liam ERD: Reinventing Database Visualization

#erd #liamerd #database #opensource

6 min read

Mani Shankar Tulabandu

Mar 31

I Built a Job Tracker to Solve a Pain We've All Felt

#showdev #opensource #productivity #discuss

1 min read

Mar 31

Why I Built USPL: Helping GPT Understand Multi-Table SQL

#chatgpt #llm #sql #opensource

2 min read

Alireza Shabani

Apr 13

Journey to GNOME Circle: Community, App Ideas, and Getting Started

#gnome #opensource #programming #beginners

5 min read

Michael Interface

Mar 31

How to Use Pytest for Exception Testing: Insights from Open Source Projects

#python #opensource #programming #testing

5 min read

Prakash Chandra Muduli

Apr 1

Introducing Humbble – The Open-Source Alternative to Bumble!

#opensource #reactnative #typescript #mobile

2 min read

Apr 12

10 Reasons Why You Should Use WordPress for Your Website

#wordpress #contentmanagementsystem #opensource #easytolearn

4 min read

Apr 3

The Importance of Contributor Recognition Systems in Open Source Projects

#contributorrecognition #opensource #communityengagement

7 min read

Yvonne

Apr 12

Managing EC2 Instances with the AWS CLI

#devops #cloudwhistler #opensource #linux

4 min read

Apr 3

ConfirmUploadState component in FilePizza codebase.

#opensource #javascript #filepizza #webrtc

3 min read

Apr 2

Feature release 0.48.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#release #gha #opensource

4 min read

NeuroSync

Mar 28

How Focus Bubble™ Works: Enter Your Distraction-Free Zone

#focus #productivity #devtools #opensource

1 min read

NeuroSync

Mar 28

How FlowForge™ Works: AI-Powered Time & Energy Planning

#ai #productivity #calendar #opensource

1 min read

Abdelkader Boudih

Apr 11

LLMs and the Ossification of APIs: Are We Stuck with Prehistoric Patterns?

#ruby #api #ai #opensource

11 min read

NeuroSync

Mar 28

Introducing NeuroSync — The Emotionally Intelligent Productivity OS (Open-Source & Modular)

#opensource #productivity #ai #startup

2 min read

NocoBase

Apr 2

The Best Open-Source Alternatives to AppSheet in 2025

#opensource #appsheet #lowcode #nocode

6 min read

Apr 15

From Frustration to Feature: The Open Source Magic

#watercooler #opensource

4 min read

Mar 28

A new way to sync your Obsidian vault

#react #javascript #typescript #opensource

8 min read

Mar 28

Day 1 at payilagam "Intro To Python"

#python #programming #opensource #linux

1 min read

Mar 28

The Hidden Costs of Kubernetes: What Your Cloud Bill Isn’t Telling You

#kubernetes #cloud #devops #opensource

4 min read

Editor CircuitDigest

Mar 28

License Plate Recognition with ESP32-CAM and Python

#opensource #esp32 #api #arduino

1 min read

Carrie

Apr 1

Get Started with Easiest WAF, SafeLine

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #security

3 min read

Apr 1

Smart Strategies for Cost Reduction App Modernization

#opensource #refactoring #cloudcomputing #infrastructure

4 min read

TheoForger

Mar 27

Sprint 5 - Mischief Happens

#opensource #beginners #rust

4 min read

Joe Curlee

Mar 27

OpenVoice added to AI Runner

#ai #opensource #python

1 min read

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