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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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Alex Gurr

Oct 8 '21

mixmello - create remixed versions of your Spotify playlists. Open source.

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Sep 30 '21

Who's participating in Hacktoberfest 2021?

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Sep 29 '21

EasyAnalytics is up for Open source contributions

#android #kotlin #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Asrorbek O'ktamjonov

Oct 9 '21

10 Awesome Github Repositories Every Web Developer Should Know.

#github #csharp #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Sourabh Choraria

Oct 9 '21

develop & implement some of the most common uses of puppeteer via pptr.io

#showdev #puppeteer #opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

dbelokon

Oct 9 '21

Experience Working with Remote Repos

#opensource #javascript #github #git

3 min read

Oct 8 '21

Support The Sample Programs Repo This Hacktoberfest

#showdev #hacktoberfest #github #opensource

5 min read

Oct 9 '21

First pull request in Hacktoberfest

#opensource #firstpullrequest #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Oct 9 '21

adding config option in other student repo

#javascript #opensource #node #cli

2 min read

Tue

Oct 9 '21

Hacktoberfest's first PR

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Oct 8 '21

Add Fuzzy Search to Your Web App with this Open Source Tool

#showdev #opensource #fuzzysearch #nextjs

6 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 8 '21

How to get started and find opt-in projects for Hacktoberfest 🎃 don't be scared!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #tutorial

3 min read

Sebastian Rindom for Medusa

Oct 8 '21

Making your store more powerful with Contentful

#javascript #opensource #webdev #headless

7 min read

Vivian

Oct 9 '21

OSD600 - My First Hacktoberfest Contribution

#opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 8 '21

Three cool projects to contribute to during Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #githunt #github #opensource

3 min read

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