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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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Oct 26 '18

Github vs Gitlab

#github #gitlab #git #opensource

2 min read

James

Nov 1 '18

Notes From A Modestly Successful Open Source Project

#opensource

3 min read

Wajahat Karim 🇵🇰

Nov 3 '18

How do you manage Milestones/Projects on Github for your open source projects?

#discuss #opensource #github #productivity

1 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Oct 31 '18

GitHub is Celebrating Halloween

#showdev #github #opensource #discuss

1 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Nov 1 '18

Weekly Trending Repositories on GitHub (Oct.21 to Oct.27)

#opensource #programming #github

6 min read

Subbu Lakshmanan

Oct 30 '18

HactoberFest Challenge: Completed

#hacktoberfest #android #opensource

3 min read

Mohamed Diouane

Nov 1 '18

How to contribute to networking and systems open source project?

#explainlikeimfive #linux #opensource

1 min read

Oct 31 '18

Thanks, Hacktoberfest!

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 22 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (October 22nd edition)

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

jorin

Oct 27 '18

Keep your SQL database in sync with Google Sheets

#opensource #clojure #java #sql

4 min read

Oct 22 '18

Make an open source maintainer's day with this one weird trick

#opensource #github #devtips

2 min read

Oct 28 '18

ReactJs Chrome Extension Boilerplate

#javascript #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

Oct 29 '18

PromptConfig, craft a custom terminal prompt with JSON

#opensource #bash #terminal #shell

1 min read

Owais Ali

Nov 12 '18

Learn Git and Github Step By Step

#hacks #markdown #opensource #github

1 min read

Arnas

Oct 27 '18

Why Hacktoberfest is an amazing event!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

1 min read

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