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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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Lukasz Gornicki

Sep 17 '20

Analyse Sentiments In Issues and PRs And Get Notified

#actionshackathon #githubactions #opensource

3 min read

Sep 17 '20

Drop your Hacktoberfest 2020 projects! 🥳

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest #codenewbie

1 min read

Vasu Jain

Sep 18 '20

Github Workflow to change Smart Bulb color to RED on Pull Request

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Sep 16 '20

Using the DEV API to add DEV.to comment counts to my blog

#gatsby #opensource

3 min read

Abdulbasid Guled

Sep 17 '20

Looks like I'm heading out to explore the universe, but in reality, it's actually open-source development

#opensource #beginners

4 min read

Hally

Sep 17 '20

Issue Notifier

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

Carike Blignaut-Staden

Sep 17 '20

My 1st GitHub Action

#actionshackathon #actions #github #opensource

1 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 17 '20

How to use Bootstrap templates

#bootstrap #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Sep 16 '20

OSS == TBD

#opensource #git #ruby #ethics

18 min read

Sep 16 '20

Dockerize Actions

#actionshackathon #opensource #github #docker

1 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Sep 11 '20

Who's looking for open source contributors? (week 37)

#discuss #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Sep 17 '20

AlphaVantage Action Bot - renders realtime chart of a stock/cryptocurrency inside Readme

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #python

3 min read

Sep 17 '20

Generate contributors markdown file

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 17 '20

Submission for the actions hackathon

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 17 '20

GitHub Actions for GitLab (OSS)

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #gitlab

2 min read

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