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 Best Icon Library for 2026 with 4k+ Free Icons

LineIcons

Feb 5 '25

Best Icon Library for 2026 with 4k+ Free Icons

#webdev #frontend #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for A Tale of Two Databases

Datamonk

Feb 7 '25

A Tale of Two Databases

#postgres #sqlite #database #opensource

5 min read

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Feb 6 '25

Bringing Multi-Agent AI to JavaScript with KaibanJS

#javascript #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Introducing Gridstore: Qdrant's Custom Key-Value Store

Luis Cossío for Qdrant

Feb 6 '25

Introducing Gridstore: Qdrant's Custom Key-Value Store

#ai #devops #opensource #database

9 min read

Alberto Robertson

Jan 26 '25

Running SQL on files with the esProc is very convenient, on par with duckDB

#opensource #programming #esproc #duckdb

3 min read

John Ding

Feb 6 '25

React UI Library Collection

#react #ui #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for ⚙️ Building a better Ruby ORM for time series and analytics

Jônatas Davi Paganini for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB)

Feb 6 '25

⚙️ Building a better Ruby ORM for time series and analytics

#ruby #rails #database #opensource

10 min read

Cover image for Open Source Code and Security of Crypto Exchanges: Why It Matters for Developers?

Alex Roor

Feb 6 '25

Open Source Code and Security of Crypto Exchanges: Why It Matters for Developers?

#opensource #security #web3 #blockchain

2 min read

Cover image for Backstage Adoption: The Day 2 Problem

Jian Reis for Roadie

Feb 6 '25

Backstage Adoption: The Day 2 Problem

#backstage #opensource #webdev #internaldeveloperportal

5 min read

Cover image for Mastering DeepSeek: Installing Tiny, Small, and VL2 Models with Inference and a Gradio Interface

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Feb 6 '25

Mastering DeepSeek: Installing Tiny, Small, and VL2 Models with Inference and a Gradio Interface

#deepseek #opensource #ai #llm

9 min read

Judy

Feb 6 '25

Align the existing data to the corresponding position and fill in any missing data with 0：From SQL to SPL

#sql #programming #devops #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Migrate from Postman to Hoppscotch Today

Kiran Johns for Hoppscotch

Feb 5 '25

Migrate from Postman to Hoppscotch Today

#opensource #webdev #api #programming

4 min read

Cover image for Building a personal blogging platform with Next.js and Encore.ts

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Jan 30 '25

Building a personal blogging platform with Next.js and Encore.ts

#javascript #typescript #tutorial #opensource

17 min read

Cover image for Declarative Data Pipelines: Moving from Code to Configuration

Jonathan Bhaskar

Feb 5 '25

Declarative Data Pipelines: Moving from Code to Configuration

#dataengineering #python #opensource

13 min read

Cover image for Creating a web video application

Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Video Dev-Team Blog

Feb 5 '25

Creating a web video application

#javascript #videostreaming #opensource #cloud

3 min read

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