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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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Arindam Majumder

Apr 28

I Built an MCP Server for DevTo (100% Open Source)🎉

#mcp #devto #python #opensource

3 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

May 1

The Eisenhower Matrix: Prioritizing Dev Tasks for Maximum Impact

#webdev #productivity #devops #opensource

5 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Apr 30

Go doesn't believe in frameworks, but teams still need them

#go #opensource #programming #productivity

5 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Apr 30

The Role of the Product Owner vs. Scrum Master: Clearing Up Common Confusions

#webdev #productivity #devops #opensource

5 min read

May 1

handleExportPdf() in Suna, an open source generalist AI agent.

#pdf #opensource #nextjs #downloadpdf

3 min read

Naim Ai

May 1

LlamaCon 2025: Meta’s Vision for the Future of AI Development

#ai #opensource #meta #programming

3 min read

May 1

40 Free HTML landing page templates

#html #webdev #frontend #opensource

1 min read

Inhere

May 1

gookit/slog - release v0.5.8, Lightweight, configurable, extensible logging library

#opensource #programming #go #github

2 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 30

Understanding Your Identity in Linux Using id, whoami, and groups

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

LJ

May 1

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graph For Documents with LLM

#showdev #opensource #programming #python

7 min read

Zhang Wei

Apr 30

Blockchain's Role in Enhancing Open Source Transparency

#blockchain #opensource #transparency

8 min read

Apr 30

The OPSEC Starter Journal: A Real-World Guide for Beginners

#cybersecurity #opensource #linux #webdev

3 min read

Akash for MechCloud Academy

Apr 30

Qwen 3: Alibaba's Leap Forward in Open-Source AI

#llm #opensource #genai

4 min read

Apr 30

The RHEL9 Roommates: A Sitcom Guide to Cloud Career Glory

#linux #beginners #cloudwhistler #opensource

4 min read

Apr 30

Communication is All You Need: What is A2A protocol ?

#ai #mcp #a2a #opensource

5 min read

Alexander Emelin

Apr 30

Bugs Fuel Open-Source Community

#opensource #softwaredevelopment #programming

3 min read

Apr 30

Padronizando o Caos: Minha jornada com Dotfiles

#dotfiles #opensource #tooling #beginners

3 min read

Apr 30

Dhvagna-NPI: Lightweight English Speech Transcription for Developers like me Who Demand Simplicity and Speed

#programming #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Apr 30

AWS open source newsletter, #209

#opensource #aws

21 min read

Ion

Apr 30

VibeCodingFlow - AI IDE

#python #ai #opensource

2 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Apr 30

How to Install Qwen 3 Locally?

#qwen3 #opensource #aimodels #ai

6 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 30

Scripting Series – Part 2 of 7

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

1 min read

NHLOCAL

Apr 30

AI TIMLINE - All prominent events in the field

#ai #opensource #chatgpt

1 min read

Dhinesh Sekar for BoldSign

Apr 30

Introducing the BoldSign’s Free PDF Merge Tool

#pdfmergetool #documentmanagement #esignature #opensource

4 min read

SwastikKaushal1

Apr 30

🎉 Introducing PartyPix AI – Your Smart Event Photo Curator! 📸✨

#ai #opensource #python #webdev

1 min read

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