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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.

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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 2 '21

I made a tool in Rust to play mechanical keyboard sounds on every key press

#rust #opensource #keyboard #cli

1 min read

Chris Noring for Microsoft Azure

Sep 29 '21

Free Data Science for Beginners curriculum on GitHub

#beginners #tutorial #datascience #opensource

3 min read

Oct 3 '21

Getting Started: Git and Github for beginners with Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie

4 min read

Oct 2 '21

Open Source: Multiple branches and git merges

#opensource #javascript #github #git

3 min read

Bervianto Leo Pratama

Oct 2 '21

OData with .NET 6

#odata #dotnet #webapi #opensource

5 min read

Asmit Malakannawar

Oct 2 '21

Getting started with Appwrite

#appwrite #opensource #backend

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Shai Almog

Oct 2 '21

Contribute to Codename One during Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #java #mobile

2 min read

Mangabo Kolawole

Oct 2 '21

How to contribute to Chatwoot on Github?

#github #opensource #beginners #chatwoot

1 min read

Oct 2 '21

Python: Reimaging Constants

#python #programming #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Karolis

Oct 2 '21

Manage your meetings like a boss with self-hosted calender

#showdev #opensource #devops #productivity

5 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 29 '21

Building a Tailwind CSS breadcrumb component

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Oct 1 '21

Building FusionHQ - All-in-one user analytics & engagement platform.

#javascript #analytics #python #opensource

2 min read

Christina Gorton

Sep 30 '21

Have Fear and Contribute Anyway

#opensource #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Sep 30 '21

Beginner's guide to Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #computerscience

6 min read

Nahrin Jalal for CodeSee

Oct 4 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021: Celebrate Open Source With CodeSee

#hacktoberfest #opensource #developer

3 min read

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