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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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Pratham naik for Teamcamp

Jun 23

Deep Work vs Daily Standups: The Productivity Battle Every Dev Team Faces

#webdev #devops #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Kazim Ali

Jun 23

Mastering Repository Sync: Your Guide to Automated GitHub Workflows for Seamless CI/CD

#cicd #githubactions #opensource #devops

7 min read

Jun 23

Windows Lockdown Software: A Comprehensive Guide to Kiosk Mode on Windows 11

#security #kiosk #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Laura Salinas for AWS

Jun 23

First Impressions with Strands Agents SDK 🧬

#aws #beginners #learning #opensource

6 min read

Gao Dalie (高達烈)

Jun 23

MemoryOS MCP + RAG Agent That Can Remember Anything

#datascience #ai #opensource #llm

10 min read

Zainab Imran for PatentScanAI

Jun 23

How to Find Prior Art for Inter Partes Review (IPR)

#ai #productivity #legaltech #opensource

5 min read

Eva Clari

Jun 23

How to Get Started in Open Source (Even if You’re a Beginner)

#opensource #programming #coding #beginners

2 min read

Zainab Imran for PatentScanAI

Jun 23

Best Practices for Finding Non-Patent Literature for Software Patents

#startup #ai #opensource #legaltech

3 min read

Jasper

Jun 22

Open Ticket: The Best Self-Hosted Discord Support Bot (2025 Guide)

#discord #opensource #tickets #discordbot

3 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 23

Earl dan Erlang: Dua Bahasa, Dua Dunia

#programming #opensource #devjournal

2 min read

Jun 22

Contribute and Learn Languages with wordsIK — Words I Know

#edutech #opensource #learning #webdev

1 min read

Aniket Raj

Jun 22

Project KARL AI

#ai #programming #opensource #kotlin

1 min read

Bharatkumar Subramanian

Jun 22

Building a Real-Time OpenAI Usage Monitor with Python: From $500 Bill Shock to Open Source Solution

#python #openai #monitoring #opensource

4 min read

Victoria Oludamilola Oyewole

Jun 22

CONTAINERIZATION

#beginners #tutorial #devops #opensource

8 min read

Jun 22

GSoC Coding Period Week 3:

#appdev #opensource #flutter

3 min read

Jun 22

Day 1 of My Spring Boot Multitenancy Starter: Contexts, Filters, and Auto-Config

#java #springboot #multitenancy #opensource

1 min read

Jash Gro

Jun 22

🎧 Introducing OpenSpot — Your Gateway to Limitless Music 🎶

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Wynn TEO

Jun 22

I’ve built a collection of 25+ free online developer tools — no ads, no login

#tooling #privacy #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jun 22

Konsep dan Implementasi kelas di Bahasa Earl

#programming #opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Jun 22

EXSQL: An open-source SQL language extension for customizable querying

#showdev #programming #sql #opensource

1 min read

Cryptostheworldof

Jun 21

Lightweight Open-Source Bitcoin Mining Software with a Custom “Flash” Feature

#bitcoin #crypto #mining #opensource

1 min read

Jun 21

How to Estimate a Software Project When You're Still Figuring It Out

#webdev #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Pierre “Bob” Stephan

Jun 21

Clean Up Your WordPress Debug Logs: Introducing the "Cron Error Silence" Plugin

#wordpress #plugin #debugging #opensource

2 min read

Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 21

How to Install and Run MonkeyOCR Locally

#ai #opensource #vision #productivity

7 min read

Python Trending Weekly

Jun 21

Python Trending Weekly #107: GIL-Free Python Gets Official Approval

#python #ai #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

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