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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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Yasuhiro Matsumoto

Oct 7 '21

Contributed to some OSSs with pull-requests in this year too.

#hacktoberfest #opensource #hacktoberfest2021

1 min read

YuvrajSHAD

Oct 7 '21

Just Started Codedamn for Improving my Web Development skill for Free.

#beginners #opensource #github #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Oct 7 '21

Rodando projetos x86_64 no Mac M1 (arm64) com UTM

#opensource #virtualization #arm64 #macbook

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Oct 5 '21

Building Tailwind CSS card components

#tailwindcss #tutorial #opensource #css

5 min read

Yehezkiel Gunawan

Oct 7 '21

How to Self Host Notion API Worker (from Splitbee)

#notion #javascript #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Thomas Bnt

Oct 6 '21

Another year of contributing to Hacktoberfest !

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Catherine Galkina for Typeable

Sep 7 '21

The confusion around your API

#api #programming #opensource

3 min read

Benjamin Rukundo

Oct 7 '21

Introduction to Control Flow in Java

#java #progamming #opensource #dsa

3 min read

VivekS.

Oct 7 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021 is here.

#hacktoberfest #flutter #opensource #android

1 min read

Oct 7 '21

Serverless functions with FN project

#beginners #serverless #java #opensource

7 min read

Oct 2 '21

10 things I add to every Rails app

#rails #webdev #opensource #productivity

3 min read

AmnaAbd

Oct 6 '21

Python ZTM Cheatsheet

#python #tutorial #beginners #opensource

17 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Oct 6 '21

September: Forem Twitch Events Roundup 👾

#twitch #opensource #meta

1 min read

Leticia @levxyca for Feministech

Oct 5 '21

Inicie no mundo open-source participando da Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #beginners #braziliandevs #opensource

4 min read

Oliver Juhl for Medusa

Oct 6 '21

Deploying Medusa on Qovery for a 100% open-source ecommerce stack

#opensource #javascript #cloud #jamstack

3 min read

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