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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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Oct 1 '21

Building FusionHQ - All-in-one user analytics & engagement platform.

#javascript #analytics #python #opensource

2 min read

Oct 2 '21

Resolving merge conflicts

#opensource #cli #node #gitmerge

2 min read

Kevin J. Estevez

Oct 2 '21

My hacktoberfest adventure!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

2 min read

Benjamin Rukundo

Oct 2 '21

Introduction to Java

#java #programming #opensource #dsa

2 min read

Christina Gorton

Sep 30 '21

Have Fear and Contribute Anyway

#opensource #hacktoberfest

5 min read

dbelokon

Oct 2 '21

Working on Different Branches in Parallel

#opensource #csharp #github #git

2 min read

Sep 30 '21

Beginner's guide to Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #computerscience

6 min read

Oct 1 '21

What is Hacktoberfest ?

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

Nahrin Jalal for CodeSee

Oct 4 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021: Celebrate Open Source With CodeSee

#hacktoberfest #opensource #developer

3 min read

Conor Bronsdon for LinearB

Oct 1 '21

Five Benefits of Open Source Software for Your Organization

#opensource #security #management #analytics

5 min read

Leyang Yu

Oct 1 '21

Adding Features - Branches and Merges

#opensource

3 min read

Oct 1 '21

I Try This Every Year

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

MrNaif2018 for BitcartCC

Oct 1 '21

Contribute to BitcartCC this Hacktoberfest!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #python #vue

2 min read

Tue

Oct 1 '21

Merging branches

#github #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Adrian Garcia Badaracco

Oct 1 '21

di: pythonic dependency injection

#python #programming #testing #opensource

8 min read

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