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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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Ericawanja

Nov 28 '21

How to contribute on GitHub

#programming #opensource #git #github

2 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 27 '21

Best Black Friday Offer - 100% Open-Source and Free Starters

#blackfriday #opensource

4 min read

Roberto B.

Nov 28 '21

Maghic: a Swiss army knife for GitHub Actions Workflow

#actionshackathon21 #actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Ruheza, NS

Nov 28 '21

Contribute like a Pro. Git-branching model (Part 2)

#git #agile #opensource #computerscience

3 min read

Suchitra

Nov 28 '21

GitLab Project Guide Step By Step!

#beginners #tutorial #programming #opensource

3 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Nov 26 '21

How to automatically generate release notes for your project

#github #productivity #opensource #maintainer

3 min read

Nov 28 '21

Get a custom Github octocat in your README

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Nov 24 '21

Top 6 JavaScript Chart Libraries

#javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Leyang Yu

Nov 27 '21

Publishing My First NPM Package

#opensource #node #javascript #npm

3 min read

Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

Nov 26 '21

Appwrite's Hacktoberfest '21 Journey

#news #appwrite #hacktoberfest #opensource

5 min read

Nov 24 '21

An Open Source DevOps Dashboard

#devops #opensource #analytics #go

1 min read

Sm0ke

Nov 26 '21

Django Pixel Lite - Open-Source Template

#webdev #django #opensource

2 min read

Emily

Nov 26 '21

GitHub Actions

#github #opensource #csharp

2 min read

Nov 26 '21

C/C++ Lint Action | clang-format & clang-tidy

#actionshackathon21 #opensource #githubactions #clangformat

1 min read

Dinesh S

Nov 26 '21

Make your first open-source contribution

#opensource #github

3 min read

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