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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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Apr 4

Cross-Promote Your Android Apps for Free — HouseAds2 Library

#opensource

1 min read

Apr 17

My Outreachy Contribution Journey with Firefox

#opensource #firefox #outreachy #learning

2 min read

Apr 4

How I Handle App Updates in Android Without Google Play (23+ Stars)

#opensource

1 min read

Apr 3

How ORM Migrations Are Hiding Missing Indexes (And How to Actually See Your Database)

#postgres #typescript #architecture #opensource

2 min read

Apr 4

I Built an Unofficial Google Calendar Desktop Widget for Windows, Mac & Linux

#opensource

1 min read

Yusuf İhsan Görgel

Apr 3

Building a Spatial Grid Particle System in Flutter Web

#flutter #dart #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Apr 17

Open Source Stars Are Not Revenue, You Need a Commercial Bridge

#opensource #gtm #gtmstrategy

5 min read

Tarunya Kesharwani

May 7

Open Source Changed How I Think About Software Engineering

#opensource #architecture #career #systemdesign

2 min read

Apr 26

Built a native MCP server for Odoo so Claude, Cursor, and Codex can drive it directly

#odoo #mcp #ai #opensource

2 min read

Claude

Apr 3

I Scanned 2,000 OpenClaw Skills for Malicious Patterns — 14.5% Failed

#security #ai #opensource #agents

4 min read

NEESCHAL-3

Apr 5

FaceAuth: Open Source Face Unlock for Linux

#linux #opensource #python #security

1 min read

Moo Moo

Apr 3

I Built ckpt: Automatic Checkpoints for AI Coding Sessions

#ai #opensource #productivity #git

2 min read

Vasyl

May 7

Open-source licenses 101: which one to actually pick

#opensource #beginners #programming #tutorial

5 min read

Batty

Apr 4

Open Source Marketing with Zero Budget: How We Got 14 Stars in 4 Weeks

#opensource #buildinpublic #marketing #devtools

5 min read

Apr 4

Add a Beautiful Lock Screen to Any Android App in 5 Minutes (63+ Stars)

#opensource

1 min read

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