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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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Jason_000

Oct 5 '21

Dictu - A simple programming language

#showdev #programming #computerscience #opensource

2 min read

PSWU for QuestDB

Oct 5 '21

Join Hacktoberfest 2021 and contribute to QuestDB!

#java #hacktoberfest #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Sep 24 '21

New Open Source Contribution

#opensource #javascript #osdssg #octo

3 min read

Oct 5 '21

Introducing Grey Software

#news #opensource #education #entrepreneurship

1 min read

AbcSxyZ

Oct 5 '21

From Free Software to Open Source

#opensource #tutorial #hacktoberfest #beginners

7 min read

DerekJxy

Sep 24 '21

Contributing To Github Repository

#opensource #html #javascript #github

3 min read

Oct 5 '21

Hacktoberfest'21-With Rishit Anand

#hacktoberfest #opensource #computerscience #github

2 min read

Lara Díaz

Oct 5 '21

HACKTOBERFEST 2022

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #community

2 min read

Hillary Nyakundi

Oct 5 '21

Resources to Help you get started with Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners #productivity

3 min read

Luigi Zaccagnini

Sep 24 '21

Contributing to Open Source with Adding Features

#opensource #cpp #github

3 min read

ringabout

Oct 5 '21

Best ways to make your first contribution to Nim language for Hacktoberfest 2021

#python #opensource #nim #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Oct 3 '21

Building a Tailwind CSS button group component

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial #css

6 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 4 '21

AWS open source news and updates 84

#opensource #aws

9 min read

Francesco Menghi

Oct 5 '21

Hacktoberfest #1

#opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Oct 4 '21

Are you contributing to Hacktoberfest? A few tips for you.

#hacktoberfest #github #codenewbie #opensource

3 min read

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