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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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Sep 30

Building a Robust Data Observability Framework to Ensure Data Quality and Integrity

#dataengineering #opensource #datascience #data

7 min read

Sep 17

Introducing colorific-magic: Enhance Your Console Logs with Stunning Colors

#node #npm #opensource #webdev

2 min read

xuxiaofeng

Sep 17

Bill Split Calculator

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Timon Vonk

Sep 16

Announcing Swiftide 0.31

#programming #ai #rust #opensource

1 min read

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PikaPods

Sep 16

Introducing PikaPods: Your Open-Source Hosting Platform

#opensource #pikapods #webdev #beginners

1 min read

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Kushagra Srivastava

Sep 16

My Google Summer of Code Journey: Part 2

#programming #kernel #freebsd #opensource

5 min read

Cover image for How to Get Selected for GSoC (Google Summer of Code) - My Personal Experience at Accord Project

Sep 14

How to Get Selected for GSoC (Google Summer of Code) - My Personal Experience at Accord Project

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #opensource

5 min read

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Antonio

Oct 6

KillPort Advanced v2.0:Evolution of a Port Management Tool for macOS

#devtools #shell #opensource #performance

4 min read

ByteKnight

Sep 15

🧅 Oniux: Tor Routing for Linux

#opensource #cybersecurity #tor

1 min read

Jon Davis

Oct 3

C# (Maybe) Joins the Motia Family: Building Multi-Language Workflows with .NET 9

#showdev #opensource #dotnet #csharp

7 min read

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Altinity

Sep 16

Understanding Detached Parts in ClickHouse®

#devops #opensource #clickhouse #troubleshooting

11 min read

terryncew

Sep 16

Open Line Protocol — a geometry-first wire for AI agents (MIT)

#opensource #ai #agents #protocol

1 min read

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ozkeisar

Sep 15

Give Juniors a Chance

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

daniele pelleri

Oct 5

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

#mcp #claudecode #ai #opensource

2 min read

Tanay Vasishtha

Sep 15

Building Smarter: My Journey with CurateBang and Kiro

#webdev #productivity #opensource #kiro

2 min read

Moukhtar Youssef

Sep 15

Why I am building DriveLite ?

#webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Yousef

Oct 7

A Deep Dive into the Rhino Framework

#webdev #ruby #rails #opensource

6 min read

Colux

Sep 15

Building LibreTune: A Deep Dive into Modern Android Music App Development

#programming #android #music #opensource

7 min read

GitHubOpenSource

Sep 15

Leantime: The Open-Source Project Management Powerhouse You Need!

#project #opensource #kanban #agile

3 min read

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Sep 18

Built Français Pro: A Technical Deep Dive into Modern French Learning

#nextjs #opensource #firebase #webdev

6 min read

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PXL - Programming eXperience Lab

Sep 14

CipherVault – Lightweight Browser-Based Encryption Tool

#webdev #javascript #security #opensource

1 min read

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Sep 14

Supacrawler: lightweight, and ultra-fast web scraping api

#opensource #webdev #programming #python

2 min read

Shrijith Venkatramana

Sep 18

Postfix vs. Dovecot: Key Differences for Building Email Systems

#programming #productivity #devops #opensource

5 min read

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Denis

Oct 6

Building a Beautiful macOS Cleaner with Python and Rich UI

#python #macos #cli #opensource

5 min read

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Oct 6

My First Open Source Contribution

#codenewbie #github #opensource

2 min read

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