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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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C M Pandey

Nov 3 '20

My Hacktoberfest 2020 experience 😄🎉

#hacktoberfest #opensource #git #github

1 min read

Alessandro Gaggia

Nov 3 '20

Testing your Signature v4 Cognito authenticated API: an Insomnia Plugin

#opensource #aws #authentication #insomniaplugin

7 min read

BekahHW

Nov 2 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: The Best One Yet

#hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Nov 2 '20

Popular Tailwind CSS Plugins and Extension

#tailwindcss #css #opensource

5 min read

Nov 2 '20

My "Hacktoberfest 2020" Journey

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 2 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.42

#opensource #aws

22 min read

Nov 2 '20

There is no better way.

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #beginners

2 min read

Fum

Nov 2 '20

10 incredible projects showing the power of open source 🔥

#opensource #github #community

7 min read

Christina Gorton

Oct 30 '20

Week 5: Forem Hacktoberfest Twitch Events Recap

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

2 min read

Oct 3 '20

A desperate mistake: Update README.md

#github #hacktoberfest #opensource #development

3 min read

Susnata Goswami

Oct 3 '20

Create the best GitHub Readme ever! 🚀

#github #opensource #git #readme

2 min read

V. Rohan Rao for GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur

Nov 1 '20

OpenSource and Data Privacy.

#opensource #datascience #security #tutorial

6 min read

Oct 30 '20

I Just learnt Python, which open source project can I start to contribute?

#beginners #opensource #python #github

1 min read

Narasimha Prasanna HN

Nov 1 '20

Selecting the best open-source library/framework for your next project.

#github #tutorial #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Tharindu Lakshitha

Nov 1 '20

How I completed Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #digitalocean

4 min read

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