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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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daniele pelleri

Oct 5 '25

Orchestro: Trello for Claude Code — with a built-in Scrum Master

#mcp #claudecode #ai #opensource

2 min read

momina raheel (Moona)

Oct 7 '25

Day 25 of 90 day python series..

#programming #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Sep 4 '25

How a "Boring" CLI Cleanup in Apache Kafka Tells a Big Story

#github #kafka #opensource #buildinpublic

5 min read

nyaomaru

Oct 5 '25

Build isXXX the Easy Way? Meet is-kit

#typescript #opensource #util #programming

2 min read

Laura Morinigo for GenAI Works

Sep 3 '25

Inside an agent’s brain: Why AI Needs Open Orchestration

#ai #architecture #powerfuldevs #opensource

5 min read

Oct 7 '25

Chronos Vault Trinity Protocol Now Live on Testnet: Revolutionizing Multi-Chain Security

#blockchain #web3 #opensource #security

3 min read

Aman Kumar

Oct 6 '25

Best Practices for Public npm Packages: Lock Files, Publishing & Dependency Management

#npm #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

chahuadev

Oct 7 '25

Tired of Juggling Multiple Projects? I Built a Framework to Automate It All.

#javascript #programming #opensource #node

3 min read

Sherin Joseph Roy

Oct 6 '25

Building CodeGenie: A Local AI Coding Agent (100% Offline & Private)

#programming #ai #opensource

4 min read

Oct 6 '25

My First Open Source Contribution

#codenewbie #github #opensource

2 min read

Havilah Academy

Oct 6 '25

📢 Call for Judges

#opensource #hackathon #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

Jramone3

Oct 6 '25

MintBridgeXFCE v-1.0.3 – Actualización comunitaria de toolkit blindado para Linux Mint XFCE

#linux #xfce #opensource #legacy

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 2 '25

I Built a Markdown Converter That Finally Doesn’t Suck (And It’s Free)

#markdown #webdev #opensource #hacktoberfest

10 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Yousef

Oct 1 '25

Contributing to Rhino: Building the Future of MVP Development

#hacktoberfest #opensource #rails #webdev

4 min read

Shantanu

Oct 6 '25

.NET WebRTC

#webdev #programming #opensource #dotnet

1 min read

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