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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: Maintainer Spotlight

ZigRazor

Oct 3 '22

Hacktoberfest is started, give your contribution!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #githunt

2 min read

Erin Bensinger for The DEV Team

Sep 30 '22

Follow Friday: Preptember Edition (30 September 2022)

#meta #opensource #preptember #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Oct 2 '22

Release 0.8.0 of Ebirah

#perl #docker #release #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 2 '22

(VIDEO) Flask API Generator and View - Free Product

#flask #opensource #generator

3 min read

Kayode for Medusa

Oct 13 '22

How I built a live chat with my Ecommerce Store Using Medusa and Rocket.Chat

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

6 min read

Oct 2 '22

Mutations

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

3 min read

Archer Allstars

Oct 2 '22

Re-enable VA-API hardware video acceleration on openSUSE Tumbleweed

#tutorial #linux #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Sep 30 '22

List Of Github Repository to Contribute in HacktoberFest 2022

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #contribute

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 30 '22

AWS open source news and updates, #129

#opensource #aws

21 min read

Oct 1 '22

Celebrate Open Source with Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #github

3 min read

Michael Di Prisco

Oct 1 '22

I wasn't happy with React useState Hook, so I built my own one and made it Open Source.

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Kodeflap

Oct 1 '22

It's Hacktoberfest time - Time to gear up your skill

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #android

3 min read

Chris Sev for DigitalOcean

Sep 30 '22

Hacktoberfest 2022!

#hacktoberfest #opensource

6 min read

anshul137

Oct 1 '22

DPS909 Blog :Static Site Generator(ag-ssg) Lab 3

#opensource

1 min read

Oct 1 '22

Bug fix release 1.61 of perl-workflow and then some

#opensource #release #perl

2 min read

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