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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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Helad

Oct 27 '19

The Dark side of donations

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Muhamed G

Feb 10 '18

Introducing AI Vision Assistant, an open source project to help people with visual impairments

#code #computervision #microsoftcognitive #opensource

3 min read

Oct 25 '19

Introducing Pandas-Log: package for debugging pandas operations

#python #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Branko Arnaudovski

Oct 23 '19

My first open source contribution

#opensource

1 min read

Nwokocha wisdom maduabuchi

Oct 23 '19

How to use Anko Library to run background task in Android

#android #kotlin #opensource

1 min read

Mark Kop

Oct 20 '19

Hacktoberfesting!

#javascript #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Imam Aris Munandar

Oct 22 '19

HacktoberFest 2019 I join it first time

#hacktoberfest #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Oct 20 '19

Good First Issue - My Own Open Source Project

#a11y #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

unbug

Oct 22 '19

Good news, my project got 8k GitHub stars.

#opensource

1 min read

James Ford

Oct 19 '19

Inspired by Open Source.

#tech #opensource #workflowautomation #innersource

7 min read

Dominik Kundel for Twilio

Oct 18 '19

Open Source Tips from Maintainers for Maintainers

#hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Bob Walsh

Oct 18 '19

Push goals are bad for you

#development #management #opensource

1 min read

Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Oct 18 '19

Mental Framework for Deriving Product from Open Source Project

#opensource #startup

5 min read

Oct 15 '19

Hacktoberfest: My Journey Into Open Source

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Oct 9 '19

My first time hosting a local Hacktoberfest meeting

#hacktoberfest #talk #workshop #opensource

5 min read

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