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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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Eldad A. Fux for Appwrite

Oct 1 '20

Celebrate Hacktoberfest 20 with Appwrite

#opensource #javascript #node #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Henry

Sep 30 '20

Among Us is the Future of Open Source Community

#discuss #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Sep 30 '20

I'm participating in Hacktoberfest

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners

2 min read

Sep 30 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 : October Festival

#opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Sep 29 '20

CrowdSec, an open-source, modernized & collaborative Fail2ban

#security #devops #opensource #linux

3 min read

Jayesh Tembhekar ⚡

Sep 30 '20

Do you have issues? 😁

#help #hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Sep 30 '20

Contribute to BotKube during Hacktoberfest

#showdev #hacktoberfest #opensource #kubernetes

1 min read

Amruta Ranade for Cockroach Labs

Sep 29 '20

Answering your Frequently Asked Questions about Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #codenewbie #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Justin Hunter for Exceptionless

Sep 30 '20

How to Self-Host Your Error Monitoring Service

#tutorial #opensource #dotnet #docker

4 min read

Gregdevogo

Sep 30 '20

Introduction to full-text operators and basic search

#sql #opensource #devops #tutorial

10 min read

Mert ÇELEN for Liman

Sep 30 '20

Liman MYS 1.4 Sürüm Duyurusu

#liman #management #opensource #linux

1 min read

Bobby

Sep 25 '20

Step by step Video Tutorial on How to Create Your First Pull Request

#hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie #github

1 min read

Sep 29 '20

Day 1 with the Github CLI 1.0

#news #github #git #opensource

2 min read

Stephan B. R. Langenau

Sep 29 '20

Hacktober Fest 2020 - 5. Steps Pull Request

#hacktoberfest #beginners #github #opensource

2 min read

Sep 29 '20

All you need to know about Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #git

5 min read

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