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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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Thomas Bnt

Jan 7 '25

2025, me voilà ! 🥳

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #career #opensource

2 min read

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Jan 15 '25

🎁 20 Open Source Projects You Shouldn't Miss in 2025

#opensource #webdev #github #productivity

5 min read

Sam

Jan 20 '25

0dev, agents that generate code

#ai #opensource #node #python

1 min read

Joodi

Jan 20 '25

Track Your GitHub Unfollowers with Ease! 👀🚫

#github #opensource #development #developers

1 min read

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Jan 10 '25

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

#webdev #opensource #github #productivity

3 min read

Brendan

Jan 19 '25

Enhancing Oracle Database Integration in n8n with a Plugin

#n8n #opensource #oracle

2 min read

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Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Jan 19 '25

Join us at Hack the Future: AI & Open Source Hackathon

#opensource #hackathon #ai #programming

1 min read

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Abhay

Dec 16 '24

How My Old Laptop Taught Me More About Coding Than Any Course Ever Could

#devjournal #beginners #workplace #opensource

5 min read

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Medcl

Dec 16 '24

Getting Started with INFINI Framework - Our homemade framework for building enterprise golang applications

#opensource #go #application

3 min read

Dec 16 '24

Getting Started with Python: Why and How to Learn This Amazing Language

#beginners #opensource #basic #python

1 min read

Ashish Kumar Verma

Dec 15 '24

How to Get More Software Engineer Interviews by Building in Public

#programming #webdev #github #opensource

2 min read

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Dhaneesh Pillai

Jan 18 '25

Discover `react-fox-toast`: A Powerful Yet Lightweight React/Next.js Toast Library with Interactive Features

#react #opensource #ui #webdev

3 min read

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Baptiste Parmantier for Mineral Foundation

Jan 18 '25

Data structure in Mineral

#dart #discord #opensource

5 min read

Phyllis

Jan 14 '25

Join the Resolution Revolution Challenge!

#devchallenge #nocode #opensource

2 min read

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Akash Soni

Dec 15 '24

Meet Your New Productivity Partner: NoteBook-App

#showdev #productivity #opensource #development

2 min read

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