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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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flo merian

Jun 26

Did Appwrite do the ideal Product Hunt launch?

#showdev #startup #marketing #opensource

2 min read

Shravan Kumar B

Jun 27

Inside Nixopus: How We Manage Our Database Migrations?

#go #opensource #database #postgres

6 min read

PHANI KUMAR KOLLA

Jun 27

Level Up Your Dev Game: The Top 15 GitHub Repositories You NEED to Follow in 2025!

#github #opensource #programming #developers

4 min read

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Jun 27

STOP Paying BuiltWith, SimilarTech & Wappalyzer - My 2-Day Build Gives You Unlimited, Free, Community-Driven Tech-Stack Data

#webdev #opensource #programming #tooling

2 min read

Domenico Tenace for This is Learning

Jun 27

I've launched my YouTube Channel 📹

#news #opensource #programming #webdev

2 min read

Jun 27

New Open Souce Project On GitHub

#css #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

Parmesh B

Jun 27

From V8 to Event Loop: The Inner Anatomy of Node.js

#node #webdev #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Jun 27

From Manual API Testing to AI-Powered Automation: My Experience with Keploy

#opensource #api #testing

2 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Jun 27

Why Your Deadlines Are Wrong: Evidence-Based Estimation for Developers

#webdev #productivity #opensource #learning

8 min read

Aniket Raj

Jun 27

Project KARL - AI

#ai #programming #opensource #kotlin

1 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 27

Real-World Project Management: The Unwritten Rules

#opensource #softwareengineering #webdev #devresolutions2024

3 min read

SetraTheX

Jun 26

How I Built a Smarter ZIP Engine with AI: My Day 9 & 10 Journey (Pagonic Project)

#ai #opensource #softwareengineering #zip

7 min read

Ayokanmi Adejola

Jun 26

Growing My Frontend Portfolio & Network: Join Me

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Jun 26

🛡️ How RedXShield is Changing Africa’s Cybersecurity Game

#africantech #cybersecurity #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Jun 26

What is wrangler.jsonc file in 0.email codebase?

#wrangler #cloudflarechallenge #react #opensource

3 min read

Elanat Framework

Jun 26

WebForms Core Organization on GitHub

#github #opensource #backend #webformscore

1 min read

Jun 26

AI Workshop: Build Your Agentic Knowledge Base in 60 Minutes

#ai #beginners #opensource #rag

1 min read

Jian Mo

Jun 26

Day 1: Building Morning Story - An Open Source Bot for Automated Standup Updates!

#buildinpublic #opensource #productivity #morningstory

2 min read

Jun 26

Building Your First Kotlin Multiplatform App: From Setup to iOS App Store with Compose Multiplatform (2025 Guide)

#kotlin #mobile #android #opensource

10 min read

Can Mingir for GreyCollar

Jun 25

📢 GreyCollar: Supervised Agentic AI Project

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #typescript

6 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Jun 26

Introduction to project management (for beginners)

#opensource #programming #devtools #github

3 min read

Sarah Nyambura Kiiru

Jun 26

My Journey Into Git, GitHub & Version Control 💻

#git #github #opensource #versioncontrol

2 min read

Jun 26

# Secure the Future: Dive into Innovations in Digital Archiving

#coding #archiving #datapreservation #opensource

2 min read

Jun 26

# Level Up Your Community Impact: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Public Libraries Webinar

#tech #libraries #opensource #community

2 min read

Jun 26

My Jarvis ai

#showdev #ai #opensource #github

1 min read

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