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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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Arindam Majumder

Feb 7 '25

⚡️Top 10 Project Management Tools Trending in 2025 🔥

#opensource #productivity #programming #beginners

13 min read

DCT Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Feb 13 '25

10 Super Underrated Open-Source Tools You Don’t Want to Miss in 2025 🚀

#opensource #webdev #itconsulting #techtools

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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Feb 10 '25

🌷Creating an SSR Gallery App in JavaScript

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

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NocoBase

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#nocode #lowcode #opensource #github

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Open source Next.js Developer Portfolio Template [Modern + Responsive]

#nextjs #opensource #template #starter

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Feb 24 '25

Bippy, a toolkit to hack into react internals.

#opensource #bippy #react #devtools

4 min read

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Faceplugin

Jan 13 '25

Enhancing Security with Face Recognition Access Control Systems

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #softwaredevelopment

2 min read

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Ibrohim Abdivokhidov

Feb 12 '25

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#opensource #rust #tutorial #programming

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Elanat Framework

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#r #github #opensource #webformscore

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DASWU

Jan 10 '25

Tongcheng Travel Chose JuiceFS over CephFS to Manage Hundreds of Millions of Files

#opensource

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#webdev #opensource #portfolio #github

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Team Tiger Data for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 12 '25

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#aws #devops #database #opensource

1 min read

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How I Contributed to Kestra: A Beginner’s Perspective

#opensource #frontend #programming #javascript

4 min read

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Feb 12 '25

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#webdev #opensource #seo #npm

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Game Changing Improvements to ArtistAssistApp in February 2025

#showdev #opensource #react #pwa

8 min read

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