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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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Christina Gorton

Sep 30 '21

Have Fear and Contribute Anyway

#opensource #hacktoberfest

5 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

Adrian Garcia Badaracco

Oct 1 '21

di: pythonic dependency injection

#python #programming #testing #opensource

8 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

ZigRazor

Oct 1 '21

My Hacktoberfest Repos

#hacktoberfest #githunt #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Ritvik Shukla for WebX DAO

Oct 1 '21

Web 3 Community - Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #opensource #web3 #blockchain

2 min read

Vadim Smirnov for Medusa

Sep 30 '21

Medusa Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Jessica Temporal

Oct 2 '21

Projetos Brasileiros para fazer pull requests nesse #Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2021 #pullrequest #opensource

3 min read

Sep 30 '21

TDD Conference 2021 - How TDD sensitized me to speed as a regular workplace habit? - Ragunath Jawahar

#oop #tdd #opensource #programming

2 min read

Siddhant Khisty

Sep 30 '21

How to make the most out of HacktoberFest 2021

#hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Jay Gordon for Microsoft Azure

Sep 30 '21

AzureFunBytes Episode 58 - Improve your Open Source Security with @WhiteSourceSoft

#security #opensource #cloud #webdev

3 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Sep 30 '21

Jaeger and OpenTracing - Key concepts, use-cases and alternatives

#monitoring #opensource #jaeger #tracing

5 min read

Francesco Menghi

Sep 30 '21

Dealing with Merge Conflicts

#opensource #github #git

2 min read

Sep 30 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021 at Bitrise: Join us and win awesome swag!

#hacktoberfest #bitrise #community #opensource

2 min read

AnkithaTech11 for Aviyel Inc

Sep 30 '21

Coffee & Code: Integrating Live Chat Feature to Your React Application with Chatwoot by Olubisi Idris Ayinde

#chatwoot #chatbot #opensource #developers

1 min read

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