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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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Team Timescale for Timescale

Apr 2

10M IoT Data Points Daily at 50% Lower Storage Costs Using PostgreSQL

#database #postgres #devops #opensource

4 min read

Mahmudur Rahman

Apr 2

Let’s Build Something for Nature and Humanity – Join the GreenPulse Community!

#community #programmers #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

mksunny1

Mar 22

Why I Built Marksafe: A Safer, More Flexible Alternative to Markdown

#discuss #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Neurolov

Mar 22

Hey, Devs! 👋 Let’s Talk AI – Neurolov AMA Starts Now!

#news #opensource #beginners #devchallenge

1 min read

Feb 27

Baidu Set to Launch Ernie 4.5 AI Model in Mid-March, Adopting Open-Source Strategy

#baidu #launch #adopting #opensource

1 min read

Apr 2

Reflex: The Python Way to Build Full-Stack Web Apps

#webdev #python #programming #opensource

4 min read

Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Feb 27

All of the hacking tricks of Web3 developers.

#blockchain #web3 #programming #opensource

4 min read

Apr 2

Setting Up Llama 3.2 Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI: A Complete Guide

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Mar 31

From Developer to Tech Lead: The Role of Project Management in Career Growth

#productivity #opensource #devops #webdev

5 min read

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Feb 27

A Beginner's Guide To Accounting Terms Every Student should Know:

#tech #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

Vasudevan Tamilarasan

Apr 1

My starting point for Linux

#linux #opensource #developer #debian

3 min read

Apr 1

🎨 svggles – Make Interactive SVG Illustrations in React (with 1 Line)

#webdev #react #opensource #design

1 min read

Feb 26

DeepDive in everything of Llama3: revealing detailed insights and implementation from scratch

#llm #ai #chatgpt #opensource

4 min read

Apr 1

Porting is-odd npm to OCaml using remelange compiler

#javascript #ocaml #npm #opensource

2 min read

Remi Kristelijn

Feb 26

Conventional Messaging

#discuss #devdiscuss #opensource

1 min read

Mar 21

Slash your cost by 90% with Apache Doris Compute-Storage Decoupled Mode

#database #opensource #cloudcomputing #dataengineering

9 min read

Vladislav Guzey

Apr 1

Building with Gemma 3: A Developer's Guide to Google's AI Innovation

#ai #google #opensource #tooling

7 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Apr 6

You can reduce the size of web applications several times using these tips 🔥

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Apr 1

DevOps Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Best Open-Source DevOps Projects to Contribute in 2025

#devops #opensource #devopscommunity #beginners

3 min read

Feb 26

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#flutter #dart #opensource

1 min read

Anna Zilfugharyan

Mar 21

10 Best Customer Service Chatbots for Your Business in 2025

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #automation

8 min read

Jean-Gaël

Apr 1

Introducing RatingAPI - Scalable, Secure & Open Source!

#fastapi #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

Apr 1

Smart Strategies for Cost Reduction App Modernization

#opensource #refactoring #cloudcomputing #infrastructure

4 min read

Apr 1

WebRTCPeerProvider component in FilePizza codebase.

#javascript #opensource #webrtc #filepizza

3 min read

Mar 30

Self-Hosting ownCloud on a Hetzner Ubuntu Server

#cloud #devops #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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