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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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Chris Grams for Tidelift

Oct 20 '20

Finding #3: large companies are burdened by cumbersome open source approval processes

#opensource #development

4 min read

Oct 20 '20

2020 Hacktoberfest Repository for beginners

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners #github

1 min read

Loralighte

Oct 19 '20

Is Free and Open-Source Software More Reliable?

#discuss #opensource #debate

4 min read

Sonu Sharma 💙

Oct 20 '20

GitConnect - A Github application built in flutter

#flutter #github #opensource #flutterapp

3 min read

Ryan Fitzgerald

Oct 18 '20

I open-sourced my portfolio + blog template built with Gatsby & Tailwind

#gatsby #opensource #javascript #react

1 min read

Oct 21 '20

Containers - Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud Buildpacks

#cloudnative #devops #microservices #opensource

3 min read

@lukeocodes 🕹👨‍💻

Oct 20 '20

Hacktoberfest - Open Source and Lots More

#hacktoberfest #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

Oct 20 '20

Begin with Linux #1

#linux #python #opensource

3 min read

Oct 18 '20

Switch to linux while learning programming?

#linux #beginners #opensource #python

2 min read

Sherlock

Oct 20 '20

Using Huawei Map Kit on Flutter Applications

#android #opensource #tutorial

10 min read

Oct 19 '20

Strongbox: a love story

#strongbox #opensource #java #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 15 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 Check-in

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

2 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 19 '20

AWS open source news and updates No.40

#aws #opensource

17 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

VIMAL KUMAR for Web

Oct 19 '20

Master-Portfolio :First release

#news #opensource #react #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Oct 19 '20

Finding a repository to work on

#beginners #opensource #github #hacktoberfest

3 min read

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