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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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Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Oct 12 '20

Hacktoberfest Week Three — Thank you to our Contributors on Forem ❤️

#opensource #gratitude #meta #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Montana Mendy for Travis CI

Oct 14 '20

Get up and running with Rails and Travis CI

#devops #ruby #rails #opensource

2 min read

Oct 12 '20

Aprenda agora a Personalizar o seu Terminal do Windows!

#tutorial #beginners #productivity #opensource

8 min read

Gary Bell

Oct 14 '20

Getting started with GitLab's Cloud Development Kit

#git #opensource

6 min read

Oct 14 '20

Hacktoberfest and Open Sourcing a React.js Component

#hacktoberfest #javascript #opensource #react

8 min read

Oct 14 '20

PowerToys The Ultimate Utility Tool On Windows 10

#productivity #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Hamed

Oct 9 '20

GitLab joined legalized discrimination. Why does no one talk about this?

#discuss #gitlab #opensource #github

5 min read

Guillaume Falourd

Oct 13 '20

Ritchie CLI: A customizable automation tool

#productivity #opensource #hacktoberfest #automation

2 min read

Oct 13 '20

Implement OCR with React#1

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #react

3 min read

Sep 29 '20

Hacktoberfest: 69 Beginner-Friendly Projects You Can Contribute To

#opensource #beginners #github #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

VIMAL KUMAR for Web

Oct 12 '20

Master-Portfolio :Create a Portfolio Website in Minutes

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #react

3 min read

Yoginth for Taskord

Oct 13 '20

Taskord Changelog - Oct 13

#showdev #opensource #productivity #changelog

1 min read

Mayank Choudhary

Oct 13 '20

Webiny - Opensource platform for building serverless applications and APIs.

#opensource #serverless #aws #webiny

1 min read

Oct 12 '20

Understanding ngrx/component-store debounceSync()

#angular #ngrx #rxjs #opensource

5 min read

Oct 9 '20

Make your first contribution during Hacktoberfest 🍁

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

3 min read

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