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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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D\sTro

Oct 18 '20

Codeigniter in 10 Minutes!

#php #oop #codenewbie #opensource

6 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Oct 17 '20

Tailwind CSS tutorial: learn how to build websites using a utility-first CSS framework

#tailwindcss #tutorial #opensource

19 min read

Pavithra Eswaramoorthy

Oct 17 '20

Beginner's Guide to Communication in FOSS

#writing #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Love Tyagi

Oct 18 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020.

#github #opensource #hacktoberfest #git

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 17 '20

Podcast - open source builders: Arpit Mohan

#opensource #startup

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 17 '20

My Hacktoberfest progress

#opensource #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Yoginth

Oct 17 '20

Taskord is out now 🎉

#showdev #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Oct 17 '20

An Open Source Physics Simulations Project!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #contributorswanted #javascript

1 min read

Josh

Oct 17 '20

React Music (React Synth)

#hacktoberfest #opensource #synth #react

1 min read

Ségolène Alquier

Oct 16 '20

Make your first pull request to an open-source project 💪

#opensource #codenewbie

3 min read

Sep 18 '20

Introducing ForemJS: The API Wrapper for Dev.to

#node #javascript #forem #opensource

2 min read

Tejaswini

Oct 17 '20

Git-Hub Commands that are useful for beginners who want to contribute to the Open Source!!!

#github #opensource #beginners #computerscience

2 min read

Rudrakshi

Oct 17 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 17 '20

First time participating in Hacktoberfest. 🎉

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Nahrin Jalal for Vonage Developers

Oct 19 '20

33 High Impact Open Source Projects Seeking Contributors

#opensource #career #hacktoberfest #contributorswanted

9 min read

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