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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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Jan 3 '25

Top Open Source Projects to Watch in 2025

#opensource #programming #javascript #ai

3 min read

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Dec 12 '24

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#opensource #computervision #machinelearning #leakysplits

2 min read

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Jurjen de Vries

Jan 15 '25

2025: The Year of Decentralization – How Nostr Will Make You a Standout Developer

#webdev #opensource #web3 #beginners

11 min read

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Kafeel Ahmad (kaf shekh)

Jan 15 '25

10 Must-Bookmark Open Source Projects for Developers

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

James Blackwood-Sewell for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jan 14 '25

TimescaleDB in 2024: Making Postgres Faster

#postgres #opensource #database #ai

6 min read

XploitCore

Jan 15 '25

KDE vs GNOME vs Others: Choosing the Best Linux Desktop Environment in 2025

#tutorial #opensource #linux #performance

2 min read

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Fede Bonel Tozzi for Puck

Jan 14 '25

Managing application state in Puck

#webdev #opensource #javascript #react

10 min read

Jenuel Oras Ganawed

Jan 14 '25

Animation Library You Can Use for your Web Apps

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for 15 Open Source Projects Every Developer Needs to Bookmark 📚👨‍💻

Jan 14 '25

15 Open Source Projects Every Developer Needs to Bookmark 📚👨‍💻

#webdev #opensource #productivity #github

5 min read

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Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jan 14 '25

Tutorial: How We Built a Reverse Video Search System Directly in PostgreSQL

#tutorial #ai #postgres #opensource

10 min read

Cover image for Getting Started with the Open Source AI Hackathon

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 14 '25

Getting Started with the Open Source AI Hackathon

#hackathon #opensource #ai #tutorial

4 min read

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Piotr Kulpinski

Jan 14 '25

7 Open-Source Tools for Better Website Analytics

#opensource #software #analytics #productivity

5 min read

Cover image for Open-Source React Icon Picker: Lightweight, Customizable, and Built with ShadCN, TailwindCSS. Perfect for Next.js Projects!

jake r

Jan 14 '25

Open-Source React Icon Picker: Lightweight, Customizable, and Built with ShadCN, TailwindCSS. Perfect for Next.js Projects!

#nextjs #react #opensource #tailwindcss

1 min read

Judy

Jan 14 '25

SPL: a database language featuring easy writing and fast running

#programming #beginners #devops #opensource

14 min read

Jan 14 '25

✨ Introducing Tooltip: A Revolutionary Suite of Developer Tools** ✨

#discuss #githubchallenge #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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