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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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Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Akash Jana

Oct 28 '24

🌱 My 1st Hacktoberfest Experience: A Journey of Code, Challenges, and Community

#hacktoberfest #opensource #devchallenge

5 min read

Md Abid Hussain

Oct 30 '24

Building SDKs for MindsDB this Hacktoberfest

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Remi for Pixium Digital

Nov 4 '24

Discovery: Screenity - A powerful open-source screen capture tool

#webdev #productivity #software #opensource

2 min read

Roseanne

Oct 24 '24

Navigating SaaS Billing Software: A Developer’s Perspective

#discuss #opensource #productivity

1 min read

erickay

Nov 4 '24

My First Open Source Experience: An Inspiring New Chapter in the World of Code

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Carrie

Nov 4 '24

Anti Bot Protection with SafeLine 7.0

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Oct 30 '24

"Hack, October, and Fest: A Trio of Tech Triumphs!"

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

MrDPrasad

Nov 4 '24

How to Use Git to Manage Daily Tasks and Schedule Effectively

#git #tutorial #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Nov 4 '24

Open Source GenAI powered chat based Data Engineering tool - Ask On Data

#opensource #ai

1 min read

Easy Tuts

Oct 30 '24

Coding, Collaborating, and Contributing: My Hacktoberfest Journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Dhanush

Oct 30 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 Experience of a Java Developer and a Contributor

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Nov 4 '24

What Are Blacklist, Whitelist, Greylist, and Monitor Mode in Cybersecurity?

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Aditya

Oct 30 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey: Learning, Growing, and Giving Back 🎉

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Nov 4 '24

Reflecting my hacktoberfest journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Spandan Mukherjee

Oct 31 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey as a Maintainer with Github_Open_World 🌍

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

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