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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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Mohamed Diouane

Nov 1 '18

How to contribute to networking and systems open source project?

#explainlikeimfive #linux #opensource

1 min read

Oct 31 '18

Thanks, Hacktoberfest!

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 22 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (October 22nd edition)

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

jorin

Oct 27 '18

Keep your SQL database in sync with Google Sheets

#opensource #clojure #java #sql

4 min read

Oct 22 '18

Make an open source maintainer's day with this one weird trick

#opensource #github #devtips

2 min read

Oct 28 '18

ReactJs Chrome Extension Boilerplate

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Oct 29 '18

PromptConfig, craft a custom terminal prompt with JSON

#opensource #bash #terminal #shell

1 min read

Owais Ali

Nov 12 '18

Learn Git and Github Step By Step

#hacks #markdown #opensource #github

1 min read

Arnas

Oct 27 '18

Why Hacktoberfest is an amazing event!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 19 '18

How to be an awesome open source maintainer?

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 21 '18

How to contribute to an Open Source Project

#github #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Oct 25 '18

The Minimum Viable Pull-request

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Oct 21 '18

How to Get the Git Directory

#ruby #git #github #opensource

1 min read

Oct 19 '18

Have you used the new "suggested changes" in GitHub pull requests?

#discuss #github #opensource

1 min read

//va

Feb 19 '19

Bring Machine Learning to the Browser with TensorFlow.js — Part I

#tensorflow #javascript #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

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