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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.

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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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Paras Daryanani

Oct 2 '20

8 Reasons to Build a Website with DNN Platform in 2020

#dotnetnuke #dnncms #dotnet #opensource

3 min read

Ember.js

Oct 1 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020

#ember #javascript #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Prithvi for LitmusChaos

Sep 29 '20

Celebrate Hacktoberfest 2020 with LitmusChaos

#hacktoberfest #litmuschaos #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

Oct 2 '20

Release 0.2.1 or, How Hacktoberfest Ruins Everything. Me too. Probably.

#opensource #javascript #node #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 1 '20

Using GitHub Project board for Hacktoberfest contributions

#hacktoberfest #github #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Oct 1 '20

Open Source Projects Thread

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Maxim Salnikov for Azure Heroes

Oct 1 '20

We celebrate Hacktoberfest by introducing OpenSourcer badge of Azure Heroes program

#azure #azureheroes #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Michael Bogan for Heroku

Sep 30 '20

We Need Better Virtual Dev Conferences

#javascript #career #eventsinyourcity #opensource

7 min read

Marcin Michniewicz

Oct 1 '20

Hacktoberfest challenge

#opensource #hacktoberfest #process #visualization

1 min read

Juan F Gonzalez

Oct 1 '20

Starting with Open Source & Hacktoberfest. A 3-year review

#coding #opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Oct 1 '20

Bootstrap 5 Alpha 2 changes: dark mode for carousels and dropdowns and new utility position classes

#bootstrap #bootstrap5 #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

krido

Oct 1 '20

First time participating in the Hacktoberfest event

#hacktoberfest #writing #opensource

2 min read

Puru

Oct 1 '20

Adjust the display brightness from command-line for Linux

#linux #commandline #opensource #brightness

1 min read

Oct 1 '20

Hacktoberfest is here! How do you get involved?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #githunt

2 min read

Delphine COILLE

Oct 1 '20

Bonita Community HacktoberFest Day

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners #devrel

2 min read

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