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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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Genix

Dec 18

Project Structure Checker

#discuss #opensource #go

3 min read

Cover image for How to Actually Start Contributing to Open Source AI Projects (A Step-by-Step Guide)

Mahmoud Mabrouk

Dec 17

How to Actually Start Contributing to Open Source AI Projects (A Step-by-Step Guide)

#opensource #career #beginners #ai

6 min read

Cover image for The Hot-Reload Magic - Tweak Pipelines Live (No Restarts!)

Dec 17

The Hot-Reload Magic - Tweak Pipelines Live (No Restarts!)

#computervision #go #opensource #programming

2 min read

Wellington

Dec 18

A História de como eu ajudei a aprimorar* uma das linguagens de programação mais famosas do mundo: a linguagem Go.

#programming #opensource #go #computerscience

5 min read

Cover image for I built an open-source Chrome Extension to stop my YouTube Shorts addiction (Manifest V3)

Malek Wael

Dec 18

I built an open-source Chrome Extension to stop my YouTube Shorts addiction (Manifest V3)

#showdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Cover image for How to Document AI Agents (Because Traditional Docs Won't Cut It)

Dec 18

How to Document AI Agents (Because Traditional Docs Won't Cut It)

#ai #documentation #opensource #devops

4 min read

Cover image for VeriBiota v0.2.1: Deterministic Verification with Proven Guarantees

Dec 18

VeriBiota v0.2.1: Deterministic Verification with Proven Guarantees

#programming #biology #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Contributing to Open Source: Why It Matters and How to Start

Dec 18

Contributing to Open Source: Why It Matters and How to Start

#opensource

4 min read

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Adamm

Dec 18

Format Indonesian Rupiah Like a Pro with formatRupiah()

#typescript #indonesia #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Cover image for AppBox — An Open, All-in-One Utility Toolbox (React + Electron)

Muhammad Sheharyar Butt

Dec 18

AppBox — An Open, All-in-One Utility Toolbox (React + Electron)

#showdev #opensource #productivity #react

2 min read

Dec 18

Pure Go 2D Graphics Library with GPU Acceleration: Introducing gogpu/gg

#go #graphics #gpu #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for It's Time to DisCo: The Case for Distributed Cognition in AI Agents.

Dec 18

It's Time to DisCo: The Case for Distributed Cognition in AI Agents.

#ai #opensource #architecture

4 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Dec 18

VAP: A Universal Framework for AI Flight Recorders

#ai #security #opensource #cryptocurrency

6 min read

Cover image for Apertre 3.0: A 30-Day Open-Source Journey for Developers 🚀

Soumyajit Mondal

Dec 18

Apertre 3.0: A 30-Day Open-Source Journey for Developers 🚀

#opensource #webdev #programming #community

1 min read

玄魂

Dec 18

How to add a live star history chart to your github readme

#tutorial #tooling #opensource #github

3 min read

Cover image for From Ghost to Zulip: Setting Up Zulip Locally on WSL2 (and Fixing Tricky Python Issues)

Dec 18

From Ghost to Zulip: Setting Up Zulip Locally on WSL2 (and Fixing Tricky Python Issues)

#opensource #zulip #python #django

3 min read

Dec 17

Why 87% of Security Findings Never Get Fixed (And How We Solved It)

#security #devops #opensource #devsecops

3 min read

Cover image for Top 5 Free Open Source SaaS Starters in 2025 (Stop Paying for Code)

Dec 18

Top 5 Free Open Source SaaS Starters in 2025 (Stop Paying for Code)

#webdev #opensource #ai #saas

3 min read

Cover image for 8 Beginner-Friendly AI Open Source Projects to Kickstart Your Career in 2026

Mahmoud Mabrouk

Dec 17

8 Beginner-Friendly AI Open Source Projects to Kickstart Your Career in 2026

#ai #opensource #beginners #career

10 min read

MATHAN S

Dec 18

MURAL: A Visual Collaboration Tool in the DevSecOps Periodic Table

#devops #mural #programming #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for 🚀 Launching Vyoma Labs: A Research-First Space for Building the Future of the Web

Dec 17

🚀 Launching Vyoma Labs: A Research-First Space for Building the Future of the Web

#webdev #programming #startup #opensource

3 min read

Dec 18

DEVOPS PERIODIC TABLE AND RULES HT: HASHICORP TERRAFORM

#showdev #devops #opensource #developer

1 min read

Minimus

Dec 17

New Vulnerabilities in runC Allow Container Escape

#security #opensource #devops #kubernetes

4 min read

Dec 18

Testing in Umami codebase - Part 1.3

#umami #opensource #testing #architecture

3 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 17

Day 27 of improving my Data Science skills

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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