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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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BekahHW for Virtual Coffee

Sep 20 '21

Preptember: Projects and Discussions

#codenewbie #opensource #hacktoberfest #maintainer

3 min read

Navendu Pottekkat

Sep 19 '21

How to Make Non-Code Contributions to Open-Source Projects

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Aniket Pal

Sep 18 '21

Empowering everyone to code with Google's Eye

#opensource #react #javascript #beginners

3 min read

Sep 19 '21

What Happens in Google Summer of Code Final Evaluations

#opensource #typescript #webdev #programming

5 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Sep 17 '21

How to create a Profile README for your Organisation

#github #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Aniket Pal

Sep 16 '21

If you run a Github organisation you must do this now!

#opensource #portfolio #github #productivity

2 min read

Sep 15 '21

6 More Things I Learned Building Snowpack to 20,000 Stars (Part 2)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #snowpack

8 min read

Sep 16 '21

10 useful sections to improve your Github README files

#github #git #programming #opensource

3 min read

Vincent Villafuerte for Dev Protocol

Sep 18 '21

Helping your favorite Open Source Project with Stakes.social

#webdev #opensource #blockchain #development

3 min read

Navendu Pottekkat

Sep 15 '21

Pull Requests Like a PRO: Tips to Make High-Quality Pull Requests

#opensource #codenewbie #beginners #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Sep 13 '21

5 Things I Learned Building Snowpack to 20,000 Stars

#snowpack #opensource #javascript #tooling

8 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 16 '21

Free Bootstrap 5 Dashboard - Built with Flask and Docker

#flask #docker #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Luigi Zaccagnini

Sep 18 '21

Contributing to The Open Source Community!

#opensource #javascript

3 min read

DerekJxy

Sep 17 '21

Working In Open Source

#opensource #javascript #github #html

4 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 15 '21

Django & Docker - Open-source Projects

#django #docker #opensource #appseed

5 min read

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