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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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John Kat for Unoforge

Mar 18 '25

Building Flexilla : Headless Interactive Component Library

#webdev #opensource #devchallenge #learning

5 min read

Jérome Freyre for Vaudoise Assurances

Mar 20 '25

The (really) long journey to an API Community of Practice in a 130 years old insurance company

#api #opensource #openapi #community

4 min read

Fatuma Abdullahi

Mar 26 '25

4 Coffee Chats 4 Lessons

#coffeechats #networking #opensource #community

2 min read

Mar 20 '25

deferExecution() in Refine source code.

#opensource #react #javascript

4 min read

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Mar 20 '25

My Gemini DeepResearch Report

#discuss #ai #beginners #opensource

12 min read

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Furkan Gözükara

Mar 20 '25

MMAudio Full Tutorial — Open Source AI Audio Generator for Videos — Useful for Games and AI Videos

#beginners #ai #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

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LineIcons

Mar 18 '25

Top 10 Free SVG Icon Categories from Lineicons

#webdev #beginners #icons #opensource

3 min read

Zhang Wei

Feb 14 '25

Navigating Financial Models for Open Source Projects

#monetizeopensource #opensource #financialmodels #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

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Daniel J. Saldaña

Mar 19 '25

Goliat Dashboard: Cambios en nuestra IA, reportes y gestión de workflows

#development #devops #opensource #goliatdashboard

1 min read

Mar 19 '25

Navigating the Landscape of Software Licensing: From Open Source to Fair Code and Fair Source Software

#opensource #faircode #fairsourcesoftware

3 min read

bastian

Mar 19 '25

Introducing DropNote v1.1 – A Minimalist Note-Taking App for macOS

#macos #productivity #opensource #indiedev

1 min read

Feb 14 '25

Financial Planning for Open Source Developers: A Path to Sustainability

#opensource #opensourcedevelopment #financialplanning #diversifyingincomestreams

2 min read

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Mar 19 '25

7+ Free Font Awesome Alternatives in 2026

#icons #design #opensource #fontawesomealternative

5 min read

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NocoBase

Feb 18 '25

[Tutorial] Chapter 1: Getting Started with NocoBase

#opensource #nocode #lowcode #tutorial

5 min read

TheoForger

Feb 13 '25

Sprint 2 - Picking Up the Pace

#opensource #beginners #rust

5 min read

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