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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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LM Vino

Oct 6 '25

Launching this month

#ai #devops #opensource #git

1 min read

Cover image for My First Open Source Contribution

Oct 6 '25

My First Open Source Contribution

#codenewbie #github #opensource

2 min read

Havilah Academy

Oct 6 '25

📢 Call for Judges

#opensource #hackathon #ai #machinelearning

1 min read

Jramone3

Oct 6 '25

MintBridgeXFCE v-1.0.3 – Actualización comunitaria de toolkit blindado para Linux Mint XFCE

#linux #xfce #opensource #legacy

1 min read

Cover image for I Built a Markdown Converter That Finally Doesn’t Suck (And It’s Free)

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 2 '25

I Built a Markdown Converter That Finally Doesn’t Suck (And It’s Free)

#markdown #webdev #opensource #hacktoberfest

10 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Yousef

Oct 1 '25

Contributing to Rhino: Building the Future of MVP Development

#hacktoberfest #opensource #rails #webdev

4 min read

Shantanu

Oct 6 '25

.NET WebRTC

#webdev #programming #opensource #dotnet

1 min read

Cover image for What Building Open Source Fetch Tools Taught Me - And What They Make Me Wanna Forget

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Gabor Koos

Oct 3 '25

What Building Open Source Fetch Tools Taught Me - And What They Make Me Wanna Forget

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Cover image for I Built a Tool to Parse SEC Dividend Data (And Actually Shipped It)

Oct 3 '25

I Built a Tool to Parse SEC Dividend Data (And Actually Shipped It)

#python #beginners #opensource #career

3 min read

Cover image for [Free + Open Source] Say Goodbye to Admin Apps: Make Your Django REST API Available to Claude/ChatGPT with a few lines of code

Zachary Podbela

Sep 2 '25

[Free + Open Source] Say Goodbye to Admin Apps: Make Your Django REST API Available to Claude/ChatGPT with a few lines of code

#opensource #mcp #django #sideprojects

1 min read

Sep 2 '25

Gobian:My own OS

#programming #opensource #development #coding

1 min read

ReverseVideoSearch.app

Oct 5 '25

Reverse Video Search: Find Similar Videos by Content

#ai #computervision #opensource #videosearch

2 min read

Alejandro Navas

Oct 4 '25

wyr: Typesafe Dependency Injection for TypeScript (and why I built it)

#opensource #typescript #tooling #dependencyinjection

4 min read

Caiz.dev

Sep 2 '25

The world Caiz.dev aims to build: a new developer community for the AI era

#community #ai #nodebb #opensource

2 min read

Patrick Carstens for Githelp

Sep 2 '25

Benefits of Having Paid Code Support

#opensource #programming #codesupport

7 min read

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