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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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Saumya Subham Mishra

Oct 28 '24

My Road to the Hacktoberfest 2024.

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Jeanine Duchaney

Oct 29 '24

The BEST way to search for a Hacktoberfest repository 🔎

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

Lymah

Oct 27 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

Nov 1 '24

Release Radar · October 2024: Major updates from the open source community

#news #github #community #opensource

5 min read

Akshun Kuthiala

Nov 1 '24

My GSoC Journey: How I Navigated the Path to Open Source Contributions

#opensource #gsoc #development

5 min read

Nov 1 '24

Local Dev Environment and Static Code Analysis

#typescript #opensource #webdev #github

5 min read

Nov 1 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey: A Month of Code, Growth, and Unforgettable Lessons 🚀

#hacktoberfest #javascript #python #opensource

5 min read

Oct 3 '24

How to contribute to a large codebase?

#opensource #community #github

5 min read

Daniel J. Saldaña

Nov 1 '24

Goliath Dashboard Demo: Open Source Alternative

#astro #terraform #opensource #development

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Oct 28 '24

My Hactoberfest Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Samy Fodil

Oct 31 '24

Spore Drive: Building a Cloud Platform in a Few Lines of Code

#cloudcomputing #devops #tooling #opensource

5 min read

Marketa Cizmar for Tolgee

Oct 12 '24

8 Open-Source Tools to grow your app and reach new markets! 🔥

#webdev #beginners #opensource #learning

4 min read

Easy Tuts

Nov 1 '24

Quiz App Generator

#copilotkit #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Krzysztof Nowicki

Oct 31 '24

Reflecting on Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Docwire SDK’s Role in Bolstering Data Security

#cpp #cybersecurity #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Nov 1 '24

MYSQL GUI

#webdev #opensource #productivity #node

1 min read

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