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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.

submission guidelines

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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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Oct 17 '23

Setting Up Your First GitHub Action

#opensource #github #beginners

5 min read

Shreya for Firecamp

Oct 16 '23

10 Issues That Will Help You Grow as a top contributor in Opensource 🏅🏅

#opensource #hacktoberfest #typescript #developer

2 min read

Erika Heidi for Chainguard

Oct 18 '23

Get Involved with Chainguard Projects for Hacktoberfest 2023

#hacktoberfest #opensource #containers #linux

4 min read

Johannes

Oct 17 '23

👾 Making Open Source contributions a GAME? 🎲

#discuss #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Scott Nath

Oct 18 '23

DEV Profile Web Components: embed your dev.to profile anywhere

#javascript #webcomponents #html #opensource

5 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Oct 17 '23

GitHub Form Templates

#github #opensource #codenewbie #productivity

4 min read

Rose Media House

Oct 18 '23

Meet Fred: The most awesome Redis client for Rust.

#redis #rust #opensource #github

1 min read

Thomas Bnt

Oct 15 '23

I contributed in October 2023

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #astro

2 min read

Oct 18 '23

My First Hacktoberfest Journey: A Remarkable Experience

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

3 min read

Christine Belzie

Oct 13 '23

4 Approved Pull Requests in 1 Week: My Road to Hacktoberfest Success!

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #beginners

3 min read

MoRoth

Oct 18 '23

New opensource to replace long "Getting Started"s forever

#news #programming #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Saša Ivičević

Oct 18 '23

Rapid Application Development Platforms: Saving Time, Money, and Resources

#rapidapplicationdevelopment #saas #opensource

4 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

Oct 15 '23

Get involved: Your guide to contributing to WebCrumbs

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #beginners

2 min read

RisingWave Labs

Oct 17 '23

Hummock: A Storage Engine Designed for Stream Processing

#datascience #programming #opensource #database

6 min read

bosmatt for Speedb

Oct 18 '23

Boosting Your Application with Speedb

#kvs #rocksdb #opensource #performance

4 min read

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