Skip to content

Forem

Open Source

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

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

Cover image for GSoC Midterm Evaluation

Chiemezuo

Jul 15 '24

GSoC Midterm Evaluation

#gsoc #googlesummerofcode #wagtail #opensource

4 min read

Jul 14 '24

Automatically Redirect Back Upon Failed Validation

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for Electrifying Software: Electron

AJ

Jun 10 '24

Electrifying Software: Electron

#beginners #opensource #electron

3 min read

Cover image for TelcoCloud 101

Jul 14 '24

TelcoCloud 101

#telcocloud #openstack #opensource #cloud

2 min read

Cover image for How to Build Dynamic Grafana Dashboards and Visualize Open-Source Community Data

Lorain

Jul 13 '24

How to Build Dynamic Grafana Dashboards and Visualize Open-Source Community Data

#github #opensource #tutorial #webdev

5 min read

Palomino for Logto

Jul 23 '24

Webhooks vs. polling

#webdev #security #opensource #programming

3 min read

Cover image for A New AI Tool for my Rust Open Source Project

Francesco Ciulla

Jul 12 '24

A New AI Tool for my Rust Open Source Project

#ai #opensource #rust #beginners

3 min read

duccanhole

Jul 13 '24

New lightbox package here!

#opensource #npm #vanilla #javascript

1 min read

Cover image for harlock v0.5.1 released

abathargh

Jul 13 '24

harlock v0.5.1 released

#go #embedded #opensource #devops

2 min read

Cover image for Seamlessly Transform Your Smart Phone into a Second Screen for FREE with Zero Configuration: Experience Seamless Multitasking!

Syed Muhammad Yaseen

Jul 13 '24

Seamlessly Transform Your Smart Phone into a Second Screen for FREE with Zero Configuration: Experience Seamless Multitasking!

#opensource #tooling #tutorial #productivity

2 min read

araguaci

Jul 24 '24

Top 8 AI Open Source Software Libraries

#opensource #libraries #ai

3 min read

Cover image for Embrace the Power of Nix for Your Python + Rust Workflow

Hussain Sultan for LETSQL

Jul 24 '24

Embrace the Power of Nix for Your Python + Rust Workflow

#nix #python #devops #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for A New Open Source Platform for people to share their links of Favorite content over the internet

Imdad Rind

Jul 13 '24

A New Open Source Platform for people to share their links of Favorite content over the internet

#webdev #opensource #dotnet #csharp

2 min read

Cover image for Why I made TabbyAPI

Brian

Jul 13 '24

Why I made TabbyAPI

#opensource #developmentandgrowth #python #ai

7 min read

Cover image for 🔀 Semantic Router w. ollama/gemma2 : real life 10ms hotline challenge 🤯

adriens

Jul 10 '24

🔀 Semantic Router w. ollama/gemma2 : real life 10ms hotline challenge 🤯

#showdev #opensource #ai #python

2 min read

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.