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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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Nov 1

My First Open Source Journey

#opensource #beginners #github #contribution

6 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 1

6 Merged PRs, 6 Different Projects, 583 Lines of Code: My Hacktoberfest 2025 Story

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #devchallenge

9 min read

Javad

Nov 1

How can I bind OLSRT to Node.js?

#discuss #javascript #node #opensource

3 min read

Steven Hur

Nov 1

Open Source Journey

#beginners #learning #opensource

4 min read

Nov 1

I built a free PowerShell tool to fix common Windows 11 issues (BSOD, network, audio, login, updates)

#productivity #opensource #automation #software

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oleksandra

Nov 1

October Recap - my first Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #devjournal #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Nadim Chowdhury

Nov 1

Building Confessly: The Anonymous Confession Platform That Actually Listens

#showdev #opensource #mentalhealth #ai

7 min read

cz

Nov 1

2025 ChronoEdit: A Complete Guide to Time-Reasoning-Based Image Editing and World Simulation

#news #deeplearning #opensource #ai

9 min read

NocoBase

Nov 1

6 In-Depth Comparison of RBAC in Enterprise-Grade No-Code/Low-Code Platforms

#nocode #opensource #security #programming

8 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 1

🌱 2025 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #hacktoberfest25

3 min read

Unknownerror-404

Nov 1

NeuroLeveL V 1.02 is under way!

#discord #opensource #machinelearning #javascript

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Nov 1

Reflections on Open Source — Hacktoberfest 2025

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Miit Daga

Oct 31

I Got Tired of Writing Seed Scripts for Every Project, So I Built quick-seed (an ORM-Agnostic Seeding Tool)

#node #opensource #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Mohammad-Ali A'RÂBI

Nov 1

Open-Source Docker Book for Hacktoberfest

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oleksandra

Nov 1

How I Fixed Vanishing Pets in vscode-pets

#showdev #hacktoberfest #vscode #opensource

2 min read

Oct 31

When the Market Takes Weekends Off - Devlog Stocksimpy

#programming #opensource #performance #learning

3 min read

Kyle Homen

Nov 1

Hacktoberfest Week 4

#godot #godotengine #opensource

2 min read

Ammar

Nov 1

Unleash the Power of LLMs in Rust with Helios Engine

#rust #agents #ai #opensource

4 min read

Kiran (AK) Adapa

Nov 1

Excalidraw - Browser based app for hand drawn like diagrams

#architecture #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Oct 31

🧠 Building an Enterprise-Grade Grammar API with AI/ML Integration

#api #architecture #ai #opensource

10 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Sunil Xtha

Nov 1

My Hacktoberfest 2025

#hacktoberfest #opensource #devchallenge

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 1

🚀 My Open Source Journey — From Beginner to Contributor

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #developerjourney

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Dharam Ghevariya

Oct 31

Tackling Bigger Challenges and Exploring New Repositories in Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #learning #devjournal #opensource

4 min read

Oct 31

Circular dependency check in Python

#opensource #cli #python #release0dot2

2 min read

Oct 31

First Golang project I contributed

#opensource #websocket #release0dot2 #programming

1 min read

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