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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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AbcSxyZ

Oct 8 '21

Business models of Free and Open Source software

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners

4 min read

Leyang Yu

Oct 8 '21

Hacktoberfest Week 1

#opensource #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 8 '21

Face Detection in just 15 lines of Code! (ft. Python and OpenCV)

#python #opencv #facedetection #opensource

4 min read

Oct 8 '21

Smart Notes - A Build-in Public Product. BuildLog[1]

#opensource #design #beginners #programming

4 min read

Antonio-Bennett

Oct 8 '21

Hacktoberfest Week 1

#opensource #hacktoberfest #osd600 #rust

2 min read

ZigRazor

Oct 8 '21

Hacktoberfest Beginners and Advanced Repos to Contribute to

#hacktoberfest #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Rizèl Scarlett for GitHub

Oct 4 '21

Looking for an Open Source Project? Try Julia.

#opensource #hacktoberfest #julia #datascience

3 min read

Rajat Venkatesh

Oct 8 '21

Open Source SQL Parsers

#sql #opensource #database

4 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Sep 30 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021 — Who's Looking for Contributors?

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Oliver Juhl for Medusa

Oct 7 '21

Good first issues for Hacktoberfest

#opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript #node

2 min read

Avneesh Agarwal

Oct 7 '21

Finding the Right Open Source Projects to Contribute to

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #beginners

2 min read

Quine

Oct 7 '21

Find the best repos to contribute to in #hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Oct 7 '21

Use Twilio with Appwrite Java Cloud Functions!

#opensource #java #cloud #twilio

5 min read

Matan Shidlov for Amplication

Oct 7 '21

I'm Joining Amplication with a Vision to Democratize Engineering

#opensource #programming #architecture #productivity

3 min read

Oct 7 '21

8 Non-technical ways to contribute to open-source

#watercooler #opensource

4 min read

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