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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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Oct 1 '18

Hacktoberfest 2018: JavaScript OSS that needs contributors

#hacktoberfest #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Oct 1 '18

Get your #Hacktoberfest shirt without writing a lick of code

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #podcast

1 min read

Oct 1 '18

Module Monday 15: Scroll magic, Animated tiles, Team diamond & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

Sep 26 '18

Job title: Full-time Open Sourcerer

#opensource #career

1 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Oct 6 '18

Let's Start a Open Tech Blog Together

#discuss #blog #opensource

1 min read

Tim Schraeder @ #AWNewYork for Twilio

Oct 3 '18

Hacktoberfest (and a new TwilioQuest mission) is here!

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Oct 4 '18

Introducing the XML Language Server!!!

#github #opensource #tools #vscode

1 min read

Guillaume Martigny

Oct 1 '18

Awesome projects under 1000 stars (2) - Gridland

#javascript #github #opensource

2 min read

Shannon Crabill

Sep 26 '18

I created and maintained my first open source project for Hacktoberfest. It got spooky. Ask me Anything.

#ama #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

Rasheed

Oct 4 '18

Philomath is making progress.

#feedback #contribute #github #opensource

1 min read

Oct 2 '18

#Hacktoberfest Season: Getting Involved in Open Source Projects

#opensource #beginners #hacktoberfest

3 min read

TestingNews for Katalon Platform

Oct 3 '18

Top 15 common Selenium exceptions you have most likely seen

#selenium #opensource #tools #test

3 min read

Homer Chen

Oct 3 '18

NBA Bar - 🏀 🖥️ Check NBA in your menubar.

#showdev #opensource #react #electron

1 min read

Oct 4 '18

A call for volunteers: ClassicPress needs your help

#wordpress #opensource #php

1 min read

Swapnil Agarwal

Oct 1 '18

Participating in #Hacktoberfest? devSwag helps you keep an eye on everything that's on the table!

#opensource #beginners #git #hacktoberfest

1 min read

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