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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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Ayu Adiati

Sep 27 '21

How To Make Changes On A Commit In A Pull Request Directly On GitHub's Website

#opensource #tutorial #codenewbie #webdev

2 min read

Sep 27 '21

What is Hacktoberfest? Hacktoberfest 101

#opensource #hacktoberfest #computerscience #github

4 min read

Vishnupriya Bhandaram for Appsmith

Sep 27 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021: Let the Contributions Begin!

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

2 min read

Sep 25 '21

Open Source: My first Pull Request

#opensource #github #webdev

3 min read

Sep 24 '21

How to pick an open-source project to contribute to?

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev #codenewbie

6 min read

Gautam Krishna R

Sep 26 '21

How to prevent GitHub from suspending your cronjob based triggers

#showdev #github #githubactions #opensource

3 min read

Benjamin Rukundo

Sep 24 '21

Getting started with open source ~ Git and Github

#git #github #opensource #beginnner

2 min read

Sep 14 '21

commandline-ssg release 0.0.1

#commandlinetool #opensource #cli #staticsitegenerator

3 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 24 '21

Tailwind CSS Datepicker

#showdev #tailwindcss #opensource

2 min read

Qiwen Yu

Sep 25 '21

Experience on Contributing to a Github Project

#opensource #python

2 min read

dbelokon

Sep 25 '21

I've Got a Cute PR

#opensource #github #codereview #java

3 min read

Sep 24 '21

Open Source Community: How to Become an Active Contributor

#opensource #contribution #github #community

3 min read

Sep 24 '21

3 Things I Learned From Contributing to Open Source

#opensource

2 min read

Elliot Lee for RippleX Developers

Sep 23 '21

Announcing the First Wave of XRPL Grants

#xrplgrants #xrpl #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

Shikhar

Sep 22 '21

I finally released the app I was working on for over a month! It's called Twester.

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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