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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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frustigor

Dec 12

WebCut: Redefining Web-Based Video Editing for Developers with Open-Source Excellence

#webdev #opensource #frontend #videoeditor

6 min read

ElshadHu

Dec 13

Contributing to streamplace

#showdev #learning #go #opensource

3 min read

Dec 13

From Repo to Movement: Building an Open Source Project and Its Community

#opensource #community #github #rust

4 min read

Szilárd Pálnagy

Dec 13

"How I built a 'Forever' File Uploader with Vanilla JS and No Backend"

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Sylvester Promise

Dec 13

Day 24 of improving my Data Science skills

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Dec 13

Play lichess from your terminal

#git #rust #chess #opensource

1 min read

ElshadHu

Dec 13

Contributing to Tableau-MCP

#devjournal #github #opensource

2 min read

Sudheer Bhuvana

Dec 13

Introducing Atom Homepage: Your Self-Hosted Dashboard for Everything

#opensource #homelab #selfhosted #webdev

3 min read

Ahmet

Dec 13

OptWin 1.2 — Major UI/UX Overhaul & Feature Expansion

#webdev #programming #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Dec 13

DeepCSIM: Detect Duplicate and Similar Code Across Your Python Project

#programming #python #tooling #opensource

1 min read

Dec 13

Release my PR for the project Bifrost

#opensource #llm #osd600 #release0dot4

2 min read

Aubrey D

Dec 12

Shipping Meaningful Open Source Work

#opensource #career #api #python

3 min read

Adrián Janočko

Dec 12

Tired of Vue toast libraries, so I built my own (headless, Vue 3, TS-first)

#vue #toast #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Taka

Dec 13

Hello World: An Embedded Engineer's Journey into Modern C++ and OSS

#learning #devjournal #cpp #opensource

1 min read

Dec 12

I Built a Rust Data Engine That Hit #1 Trending — Here's What Actually Worked

#rust #data #opensource #ai

3 min read

Hitesh Sachdeva

Dec 12

Release 0.4 Final: Reflecting on My Open Source Contributions for release 0.4

#opensource #programming #learning #testing

4 min read

Kyle Homen

Dec 12

Release 0.4 Results

#gdscript #godot #godotengine #opensource

4 min read

Steven Hur

Dec 12

Escaping Localhost

#beginners #devjournal #opensource

2 min read

Dec 13

This Week in Rust Trending: Storage, AI Agents, and Real‑World Infra

#rust #programming #opensource #ai

6 min read

freerave

Dec 12

Releasing DotScramble v2.0: Windows Installation & Bypassing SmartScreen

#showdev #opensource #python #windows

1 min read

Dec 12

Laravel ReverseKit: Generate Your Entire Laravel Backend From a JSON Structure

#programming #laravel #php #opensource

2 min read

Kyle Homen

Dec 12

Release 0.4 Results

#gdscript #godot #godotengine #opensource

4 min read

Nickolay Selyutin

Dec 12

ISO 4217 Currency Reference for .NET — Strongly Typed and Production-Ready

#webdev #programming #opensource #csharp

3 min read

Dec 10

Introducing GoCVKit: Zero-Boilerplate Computer Vision in Go

#computervision #go #opensource #programming

2 min read

Oleksandra

Dec 13

Making TypeScript Tools Safer and Smarter

#opensource #tooling #typescript

3 min read

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