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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.

submission guidelines

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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Apr 24

Understanding Contributor License Agreements (CLAs): Bridging Legal Protection and Open Source Innovation

#contributorlicenseagreements #opensource #legalprotection

8 min read

Apr 24

Community Engagement Strategies in Open Source Projects: A Comprehensive Guide

#communityengagement #opensource #contributionprocesses

8 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

May 8

How to Install Falcon 3 Locally?

#falcon3 #ai #llm #opensource

6 min read

May 26

🚀 I Built an Offline J.A.R.V.I.S. in Python (No Internet Needed!) DEMO VIDEO INSIDE!

#python #opensource #automation #openai

2 min read

Apr 24

Site do meu casamento (Alguém me ajuda?)

#help #webdev #opensource #github

1 min read

May 28

CyberVault: A Fully Local, Open-Source Password Manager Built with C#

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #security

1 min read

Alex Enson

Apr 24

Group Management

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

7 min read

Apr 24

📧 How Does Gmail (and Email in General) Really Work?

#programming #webdev #opensource #learning

2 min read

Mayowa Obisesan

May 28

Microsoft "Edit" vs Vim: Is Vim dethroned?

#microsoft #rust #opensource

5 min read

Apr 24

Elevate Your Software: The Importance of Coding Best Practices

#codingbestpractices #softwaredevelopment #opensource

7 min read

Apr 24

Best Open Source Licenses: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers and Innovators

#opensource #licensing #softwaredevelopment

8 min read

Aurelio Buarque

May 27

Optimizing Struct Layout and Padding in Practice

#go #programming #devops #opensource

6 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

May 27

Dev-Centric Tools for Building World-Class Products in 2025

#productivity #devops #opensource #learning

5 min read

Apr 24

How I Built a Laravel Virtual Wallet (And Why You Might Need One Too)

#opensource #laravel #virtualwallet #programming

4 min read

May 7

Empowering Financial Literacy through Open Source Innovation

#opensource #financialliteracy #financialinclusion

8 min read

May 28

Top Chrome Extensions Every Developer Needs in 2025

#programming #javascript #ai #opensource

1 min read

Mike Freedman for TigerData (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Jun 10

The Database Meets the Lakehouse: Toward a Unified Architecture for Modern Applications

#news #opensource #database #postgres

6 min read

May 28

TiEcon 2025: Cultivating Cultural Capital in the Age of AI

#tiecon #ai #opensource #security

4 min read

Subhojit

Apr 24

🚀 Introducing Voca HTTP: A Lightweight Fetch-Based HTTP Client

#webdev #opensource #programming #javascript

2 min read

Apr 24

Jotai usage in Docmost, an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.

#jotai #react #opensource #docmost

3 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

May 21

🎙️We have prepared a lot of new things in HMPL.js for developers!

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

May 28

Mitt, a tiny 200b functional event emitter.

#mitt #nuqs #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

Wolfgang Rathgeb

May 27

Self-Host Your Own URL Shortener with Zero Database Setup

#svelte #docker #sqlite #opensource

2 min read

May 17

Unveiling ISC License Modified: A Comprehensive Exploration of Open Source Fair Code Licensing

#isclicensemodified #opensource #blockchain

7 min read

Joshua

Jun 11

My first Open Source contribution

#opensource #documentation #docusaurus #hugo

4 min read

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