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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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Sep 25 '21

Contributing to Others repo

#opensource #node #javascript #pullrequest

2 min read

Emily

Sep 25 '21

First pull request

#opensource #csharp

2 min read

Antonio-Bennett

Sep 25 '21

The World Of PR's

#opensource #python

2 min read

JLi

Sep 24 '21

Learning to make pull requests

#opensource #cpp

3 min read

Sep 24 '21

Open Source Community: How to Become an Active Contributor

#opensource #contribution #github #community

3 min read

Francesco Menghi

Sep 24 '21

Initial Pull Requests

#opensource #osd600 #github

2 min read

Sep 24 '21

3 Things I Learned From Contributing to Open Source

#opensource

2 min read

Minsu Kim

Sep 24 '21

Working with Other Project

#opensource

2 min read

Elliot Lee for RippleX Developers

Sep 23 '21

Announcing the First Wave of XRPL Grants

#xrplgrants #xrpl #blockchain #opensource

2 min read

Shikhar

Sep 22 '21

I finally released the app I was working on for over a month! It's called Twester.

#javascript #react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Tue

Sep 24 '21

Adding markdown parsing to SSG

#opensource

1 min read

Andre Willomitzer

Sep 24 '21

My first experience with Pull Requests and merging.

#opensource

3 min read

Sep 24 '21

How to Participate in Hacktoberfest 2021 & win LoginRadius Swags

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Ram Maheshwari ♾️

Sep 6 '21

I Created an OpenSource Portfolio Template for Developers 🚀

#career #javascript #css #opensource

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 23 '21

Integrating Amazon Timestream in your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow v2.x

#opensource #aws

29 min read

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