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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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Espoir Murhabazi

Sep 30 '20

Hacktoberfest is almost there, Python developers here are some venues for parties.

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #python

7 min read

Sriram Ramkrishna for Sesame by ITRenew Engineering

Sep 29 '20

Let's talk about the Circular Data Center!

#devops #linux #opensource #ocp

4 min read

yanguango

Sep 29 '20

An annotation tool to help you read open source codes

#opensource #github #sideprojects

1 min read

Sep 29 '20

Quick Open Source Lab 2 Update

#opensource #java #python

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Matthew Revell for Salesforce Developers

Sep 29 '20

How to help Hacktoberfest contributors become long term community members

#hacktoberfest #opensource

7 min read

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 for For Devs community

Sep 29 '20

CONTRIBUTING: Filip Bruun Bech-Larsen on Umbraco

#hacktoberfest #opensource #opensourceoctober #umbraco

3 min read

Yoginth for Taskord

Sep 29 '20

Taskord Changelog - Sep 29

#showdev #opensource #productivity #changelog

1 min read

Dave Nugent 🌉

Sep 8 '20

Global Developer Relations with Empathy and Compassion

#devrel #opensource #leadership #gratitude

13 min read

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 for For Devs community

Sep 18 '20

CONTRIBUTING: Wassim Chegham on xLayers

#hacktoberfest #opensource #opensourceoctober

3 min read

Mayank Choudhary

Sep 28 '20

Hacktoberfest- Free Tshirt & Cool Stickers Swag(October 2020)

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #eventsinyourcity

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 28 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 37

#aws #opensource

20 min read

Tania Allard for Microsoft Azure

Sep 28 '20

Contributing to open source projects: let's get us all started

#beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Sep 28 '20

The First Open Source Contributor Summit

#contributorswanted #opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript

1 min read

Marvin

Sep 28 '20

ColorDetection - Python ColorDetect package

#python #opensource #datascience #tutorial

6 min read

Sep 28 '20

A noobs guide to Google Summer of Code.

#opensource #gsoc

3 min read

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