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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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Apr 24

Women of Search and OpenSource Connections Mentorship Program

#womenintech #mentorship #opensource #inclusion

2 min read

Dev Sk

Mar 21

How Netflix Stores 140 Million Hours of Viewing Data Per Day PART 2

#webdev #productivity #opensource #programming

2 min read

Francesco Bianco

Apr 23

Everyone Loves Open Source… Until It's Time to Contribute

#opensource #programming #community #contributorswanted

2 min read

Apr 24

Day 7/ 30 Days of Linux Mastery : Basic Permissions and Use of Numeric Numbers.

#cloudwhistler #redhat #devops #opensource

5 min read

Domenico Tenace for This is Learning

Apr 23

Astro Minimal international: add i18n feature 🌎

#opensource #astro #programming #frontend

4 min read

Apr 24

Install Red Hat Developer Hub with AI Software Templates on OpenShift

#opensource #ai #redhatdeveloperhub #programming

7 min read

Apr 24

How I Built a Laravel Virtual Wallet (And Why You Might Need One Too)

#opensource #laravel #virtualwallet #programming

4 min read

NocoBase

Mar 21

Top 4 Open Source Products to Help You Avoid Hidden Costs in Low-Code Platforms

#opensource #lowcode #nocode #developer

7 min read

Apr 21

How I save $$$ by self-hosting these 5 open source tools

#opensource #cloud #devops #webdev

4 min read

tomasossa

Apr 24

Modeling Valid Domain Objects in TypeScript with self-assert

#opensource #webdev #oop #javascript

2 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 23

Mastering vim: The Editor That Takes You from Basic to Pro in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

VASHANTHA KUMAR K.S

Apr 23

Mastering Git Basics: A Beginner's Guide with Practical Commands

#webdev #tutorial #devops #opensource

2 min read

Mar 22

GoAvatar: Generate Unique Identicons in Go with Ease

#go #programming #opensource #development

2 min read

Maxim

Apr 23

Bloggr – A flexible, open-source Next.js blog engine

#webdev #nextjs #productivity #opensource

1 min read

TheoForger

Mar 20

Sprint 4 - I'm Finally Making Sense of Hurl

#opensource #beginners #rust #webdev

5 min read

Arindam Majumder

Apr 28

I Built an MCP Server for DevTo (100% Open Source)🎉

#mcp #devto #python #opensource

3 min read

Chen Debra

Apr 3

GSoC 2025 is here! Apache DolphinScheduler needs YOUR proposals!

#google #apachedolphinscheduler #opensource #programming

4 min read

Apr 23

Why Keycloak is the Best Choice for Authentication in Modern Applications

#webdev #programming #microservices #opensource

3 min read

Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Apr 22

How Knowledge Sharing and Communication: Building a Collaborative Dev Culture

#webdev #devops #productivity #opensource

8 min read

Abdulrasheed Abdulsalam

Mar 20

What is Developer Relations and Why is it Important?

#devrel #opensource #softwareengineering

2 min read

Mar 24

What’s missing in API testing tools today?

#api #opensource #devto #testing

1 min read

Anthony Max for HMPL.js

May 13

Create Smart Forms Without JavaScript: The Magic of HTML and AJAX 🦉

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

Mar 19

Unveiling the X Consortium License: A New Era of Fair Code

#xconsortiumlicense #opensource #faircode

3 min read

NocoBase

Mar 20

NocoBase Weekly Updates: Optimize the columns and operations of table block

#news #opensource #learning #tutorial

14 min read

Apr 15

From Frustration to Feature: The Open Source Magic

#watercooler #opensource

4 min read

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