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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).

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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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 27

Your DEV posts have a beautiful new share card ✨

#showdev #devto #opensource #design

2 min read

Puneet Kumar Mishra

Oct 31

Day 29 of Building Crowdwide — Brand Ambassador, UI Fixes & 80 Posts!! 🎉

#discuss #webdev #buildinpublic #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Oct 31

I held a séance for 31 dead websites. The most honest ghost said "that never made it into my HTML."

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #opensource

14 min read

Community feedback driving quick UI fixes

Puneet Kumar Mishra

Oct 30

Day 28 of Building Crowdwide — More Personalization, Bug Fixes & Still Looking for a Brand Ambassador!

#discuss #webdev #buildinpublic #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Oct 31

Your Build Is Broken. Let’s Find the Commit That Killed It.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #git #opensource

9 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

ADK BBX

Oct 31

Aoandon: Hearn's ghost stories in Japanese, retold at five JLPT levels

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #ai

9 min read

Tyler N

Oct 30

How I Made Yet Another Project During a Global Teen Hackathon with Prizes

#showdev #opensource #cpp #programming

9 min read

nyaomaru

Oct 31

Trick or Type Guard? Surviving `unknown` with is-kit 🎃

#typescript #opensource #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Oct 31

France's gigabyte tax, the ChatGPT shared-link account bug, Scribd's breach and Tangled's federated forge

#news #security #webdev #opensource

8 min read

OSINT-TECHNOLOGIES

Oct 31

I've built an open-source AI that learns to jailbreak your LLM in real time (Single Go binary, zero Python)

#ai #cybersecurity #opensource #go

4 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Devansh

Oct 31

Draku: Exorcising the Ghosts in Your Camera Roll with Offline Open-Weight AI 🦇

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #rust

11 min read

Divyanshi Gupta

Oct 31

RepoRevenant — Forgotten Code Deserves a Second Life

#hacktoberfest #opensource #ai #python

5 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Radhika Godambe

Oct 31

THE VEIL — I Built an AI Ouija Board That Runs Entirely on Your Machine 🕯️

#hf26challenge #ai #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Oct 31

👻🧑‍💻"Haunted Shell: I tried let my terminal possess with help of local llm models and it was fun way to end my hacktoberfest 2026"

#hf26challenge #devchallenge #gemma #opensource

5 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Oct 31

Every Repository Has Ghosts: Bringing Deleted Code Back to Life with RepoRequiem

#hf26challenge #ai #opensource #python

7 min read

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