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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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Milica Maksimovic

Oct 17 '19

Project Promotion Checklists for Developers

#beginners #startup #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Nisar Hassan Naqvi

Oct 16 '19

Frictionless Open Source Contributions with a single click

#beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript

3 min read

Nerando Johnson

Oct 16 '19

Writing The Needed ReadMe

#flatiron #bootcamp #opensource #documentationvscreation

3 min read

Thomas De Moor for X-Team

Oct 24 '19

7 Most Popular Node.js Frameworks in 2019

#node #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Thorsten Hirsch

Oct 15 '19

Automatic Termination of Closed Source Licenses

#opensource #startup #sideprojects

3 min read

Oct 16 '19

I'm thinking about taking over an abandoned GitHub project: what is your advice?

#help #github #opensource

2 min read

Oct 14 '19

What lesson did you learn from your hacktoberfest contributions?

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 3 '19

How to keep your forked repository current

#hacktoberfest #git #opensource

1 min read

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Sep 25 '19

Hacktoberfest Starts in Six Days 🎃🎉

#meta #opensource #hacktoberfest #contributorswanted

2 min read

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Oct 11 '19

Contributing to open-source is like dancing Tango

#watercooler #hacktoberfest #opensource #motivation

6 min read

Oct 10 '19

Help! Hacktoberfest Is Overwhelming

#showdev #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Oct 9 '19

21 reasons why open source is good for your business

#opensource #hacktoberfest #career #writing

7 min read

J Edison Abahurire

Oct 10 '19

How to contribute to Open Source without coding. Hacktoberfest Edition!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #developers

6 min read

Joel Varty for Agility CMS

Oct 9 '19

We just open-sourced our SDKs

#cms #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

quentinncl

Oct 9 '19

How I started contributing to open source

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #javascript

2 min read

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