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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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D\sTro

Nov 16 '20

Do you use GIT ? Let me see your code!

#opensource #github #php #python

1 min read

Harish for GitHub Campus Experts

Nov 18 '20

How I built the API for Hacktoberfest Validation

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #api

5 min read

Ana Vela

Nov 17 '20

What I Learned from Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie #webdev

3 min read

Subhampreet Mohanty 👨‍💻

Nov 17 '20

Everything you need to know before you Open Source 🚀

#opensource #github #beginners #webdev

6 min read

Nov 17 '20

Outreachy Internship with Mozilla 🦊

#outreachy #opensource #mozilla #internships

2 min read

Nov 17 '20

What is Linux and why you should learn it?

#linux #opensource

3 min read

F.R Michel

Nov 16 '20

Use symfony/messenger without supervisor

#php #laravel #opensource #symfony

1 min read

F.R Michel

Nov 14 '20

PHP - Create a simple session wrapper class

#php #laravel #codequality #opensource

1 min read

𝙽𝚒𝚗𝚊 𝚉𝚊𝚔𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 💜🐍 for Microsoft Azure

Nov 16 '20

The Python Community is Stronger Together

#pythonfunbites #azure #python #opensource

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 16 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.44

#opensource #aws

15 min read

Nov 15 '20

Tests are awesome!

#testing #beginners #opensource #codenewbie

1 min read

Nov 14 '20

Making Newbie Friendly Open Source

#hacktoberfest #python #opensource #codenewbie

6 min read

John Fay

Nov 13 '20

Upgrading to React 17

#react #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Gavin for RudderStack

Nov 13 '20

Devs Wanted: Get paid to contribute to RudderStack's open source software

#opensource #github #sponsors #rudderstack

3 min read

Nov 12 '20

How to grow as a developer

#beginners #opensource #codenewbie #career

4 min read

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