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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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Oct 4 '18

A call for volunteers: ClassicPress needs your help

#wordpress #opensource #php

1 min read

Swapnil Agarwal

Oct 1 '18

Participating in #Hacktoberfest? devSwag helps you keep an eye on everything that's on the table!

#opensource #beginners #git #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Sep 28 '18

MySQL Editor in NodeJS ~ Part Three

#mysql #node #learning #opensource

3 min read

Sep 28 '18

What I've Learned So Far Building Coravel (Open Source .NET Core Tooling) - Part 1

#dotnet #csharp #opensource

6 min read

Sep 30 '18

Hacktoberfest 2018 - Anyone looking for open source contributors?

#discuss #opensource #github #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Oct 2 '18

Welcome to Hacktoberfest 2018

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Oct 1 '18

Muxer, an open source events aggregator looking for contributors

#opensource #hacktoberfest #python #react

1 min read

Sep 24 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (September 24 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Khoa Pham

Sep 27 '18

20 recommended utility apps for macOS in 2018

#macosx #opensource #electron

7 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Sep 27 '18

Top 10 ATOM Recommended Packages in 2018

#atom #package #opensource

3 min read

tiff

Sep 21 '18

MVPs and Iterating Your Way to a Finished Product

#opensource #npm #github

4 min read

Sebastiaan Deckers for Commons Host

Sep 28 '18

8 new CDN edge locations

#showdev #opensource #startup #webperf

3 min read

Daniel for IssueHunt

Sep 25 '18

10 Best Sublime Text Themes in 2018

#sublime #theme #editor #opensource

5 min read

Sep 29 '18

Building a Top 50 VSCode Extension that hit over 2 Million Downloads as an Intern

#github #opensource #tools #vscode

1 min read

Sep 17 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (September 17 edition)

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

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