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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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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

BekahHW

Nov 1 '21

Hot Take: Saying 'In the Spirit of Hacktoberfest' is Gatekeepy

#hacktoberfest #opensource #community

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Nov 1 '21

AWS open source news and updates #88

#opensource #aws

13 min read

Appsmith for Appsmith

Nov 2 '21

October Roundup: Widget Improvements, New Appsmith functions, and ARM Architecture Support

#news #opensource #javascript #community

3 min read

Ben Adams

Nov 1 '21

WebAssembly

#javascript #webdev #performance #opensource

3 min read

Ayu Adiati

Oct 29 '21

Contributing To Open-Source 101

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #codenewbie

5 min read

Vadim Smirnov for Medusa

Nov 1 '21

Hacktober 2021 results

#opensource #javascript #hacktoberfest #webdev

2 min read

burak

Nov 1 '21

Hey Marshal

#go #tutorial #opensource #programming

5 min read

burak

Oct 31 '21

Golang with database operations

#go #postgres #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Nov 1 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource #codenewbie

2 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Feb 22 '22

How to Install Opera Browser and get FREE VPN on Linux [VIDEO]

#opensource #howto #internet #linux

1 min read

Andre Willomitzer

Oct 31 '21

setInterval() and the 32 bit debacle.

#opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Oct 31 '21

Appwrite with Dart!

#appwrite #dart #opensource #hacktoberfest

7 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 30 '21

Django Website Template - Material Kit (Bootstrap 5)

#webdev #django #templates #opensource

2 min read

Oct 31 '21

Release 0.18.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - a minor feature release

#githubaction #release #opensource

2 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 29 '21

What you missed at GitHub Universe, the latest feature announcements

#github #product #devops #opensource

5 min read

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