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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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Oct 19 '20

Strongbox: a love story

#strongbox #opensource #java #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 15 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 Check-in

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 19 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.40

#aws #opensource

17 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

VIMAL KUMAR for Web

Oct 19 '20

Master-Portfolio :First release

#news #opensource #react #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Oct 19 '20

Finding a repository to work on

#beginners #opensource #github #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 15 '20

I hit ⚡️ 15k ⚡️ commits through Open Source contributions and it broke Github.

#github #hacktoberfest #codenewbie #opensource

2 min read

Ana Enríquez for SanExperts

Oct 19 '20

Making your first Open Source contribution

#opensource #github #tutorial #santanderdevs

5 min read

Lane Wagner for Boot.dev

Oct 17 '20

How To Correctly Validate Passwords – Most Websites Do It Wrong

#go #languages #opensource #devops

3 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Oct 16 '20

Week 3: Forem Hacktoberfest Twitch Events Recap

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

2 min read

Oct 19 '20

Hacktoberfest: A great opportunity to learn

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Sherlock

Oct 19 '20

How to use React Native Push Plugin?

#android #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Sep 17 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 — Who's looking for contributors?

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Montana Mendy for Travis CI

Oct 19 '20

Get up and running with Python and Travis CI

#devops #python #opensource

3 min read

Saif Sadiq for DeepSource

Oct 19 '20

Discover: Drive meaningful contributions this Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #begginers #github

2 min read

Oct 19 '20

Another Format of PR, which I am not a fan of.

#opensource #git #github

2 min read

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