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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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Shahed Nasser for Medusa

Oct 11 '22

Medusa 1.5.0: PriceList Import, Medusa Hackathon, and more!

#news #opensource #javascript #programming

4 min read

Nevo David

Oct 7 '22

I Turned My Startup Into Open-Source

#javascript #programming #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Suhail Kakar for Medusa

Oct 10 '22

How I Created a React Native Ecommerce App for Medusa's Hackathon

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

14 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 10 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #130

#opensource #aws

17 min read

Zafar Ismatullaev for Htmlstream

Oct 10 '22

Tailwind CSS Plugins by Htmlstream

#tailwindcss #opensource #javascript #webdev

5 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Sachin Chaurasiya

Oct 9 '22

How OpenSource Contribution Can Change Your Life

#opensource #hacktoberfest #journey #career

4 min read

Tamal Das

Oct 10 '22

5 Ways to level up your Opensource project

#opensource #programming #javascript #github

4 min read

Oct 9 '22

Opening up my Open Source Projects for Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Matt Davis

Oct 9 '22

Pipenv: Named Categories

#pipenv #python #opensource

2 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 6 '22

Flask & Stripe - Open-Source Mini eCommerce

#webdev #flask #stripe #opensource

3 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 8 '22

Django Dynamic DataTables - Free Tool (Updated)

#django #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Aditi Sharma for Peerlist

Oct 9 '22

How to Get a Software Developer Job Without Any Experience?

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

5 min read

Mila Wu for Bytebase

Oct 9 '22

Hacktoberfest 2022 with Bytebase

#hacktoberfest #opensource #go #sql

2 min read

Lorenzo Zarantonello

Oct 7 '22

Open Source Repositories

#hacktoberfest #beginners #programming #opensource

4 min read

anshul137

Oct 8 '22

DPS909 Blog :First contirbution in HACKTOBERFEST

#opensource

2 min read

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