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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.

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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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Astrodevil

Oct 17 '22

Hacktoberfest 2022: Win Swag for Quality Contributions

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #programming

6 min read

Jerry Zhu for Codédex

Oct 15 '22

How to Contribute to Hacktoberfest with Codédex

#hacktoberfest #codedex #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Oct 13 '22

Http logs in Flutter app with talker is easy as possible

#dart #flutter #api #opensource

1 min read

Suraj Vishwakarma

Oct 6 '22

Awesome tools for Open Source Contribution

#opensource #beginners #javascript #react

3 min read

Samina Rahman Purba

Oct 15 '22

Refactoring My Code

#staticsitegenerator #github #python #opensource

2 min read

Oct 7 '22

15 GitHub Repositories to Contribute for Hacktoberfest 2022

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev #beginners

6 min read

Oct 15 '22

palpatine on time machine

#showdev #github #opensource #cpp

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Devarshi Shimpi for ByteMakers

Oct 14 '22

Noteslify Joins Hacktoberfest!!! Open-Source Alternative to Evernote.

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 14 '22

Django Tasks Manager - Free PyPi Library

#django #webdev #celery #opensource

3 min read

Jake Barnby for Appwrite

Oct 14 '22

Appwrite Loves Open Source: Why I Chose To Support Key Promoter X

#opensource #appwrite

2 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Oct 12 '22

How to contribute to Visual Studio Code on GitHub

#webdev #opensource #vscode #tutorial

2 min read

Oct 13 '22

An Open-Source Solution to DORA & DevOps Metrics

#devops #opensource #productivity #tooling

3 min read

Erin Bensinger for The DEV Team

Oct 7 '22

Follow Friday: Hacktoberfest Edition (7 Oct 2022)

#meta #writing #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 12 '22

Django & Celery - Open-Source Tasks Manager

#django #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Odewole Babatunde Samson for Hackmamba

Oct 13 '22

Database Speed: What is it, and why should you care?

#database #opensource #productivity #performance

6 min read

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