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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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Oct 1 '24

Building a Career through Open Source Contributions

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #programming

5 min read

Sep 6 '24

Introduction for OSD600 class

#opensource #development #webdev

3 min read

Sep 10 '24

Why Open-Source Contributions Might Be Your Best Bet for Getting Hired as a Developer in the AI Era

#webdev #beginners #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Aaditya Champaneri

Oct 7 '24

Celebrating My Hacktoberfest Journey: Productivity At Peak!

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

Sep 6 '24

New open-source swift macros

#swift #swiftui #ios #opensource

1 min read

Oct 7 '24

My Hacktoberfest Adventure: Contributing to freeCodeCamp’s Developer Quiz Site 🚀🎉

#opensource #hacktoberfest #typescript

4 min read

Peter Wan

Sep 5 '24

Beginning my Open Source Journey

#opensource #git #github #learning

3 min read

AnhChienVu

Sep 5 '24

My very first idea about open source

#webdev #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Ayu Adiati for Virtual Coffee

Sep 30 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: Why You Should Participate

#opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Yusuf Isah

Sep 5 '24

Chapter 5 - Cloning a Remote Repository

#github #git #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Oct 9 '24

A Deep Dive into SafeLine WAF and API Gateway Integration

#cybersecurity #apigateway #opensource

4 min read

Sitam Jyoti Sahoo

Oct 7 '24

Started my journey as a contributor! it's LATE, but it's gonna GREAT!!

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

karan kumar gautam

Oct 9 '24

URL-Shortener-APIs

#webdev #opensource #node #javascript

1 min read

NocoBase

Oct 8 '24

Top 7 Open Source Alternatives to Airtable with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #github #development #database

7 min read

Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Oct 8 '24

OpenFest festival will provoke your senses and mind with open art.

#opensource #eventsinyourcity #music #webdev

2 min read

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