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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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Rahul Jain

Oct 21 '21

How I improved my GitHub profile?

#opensource #github #webdev #motivation

6 min read

Sep 30 '21

My First PR

#opensource #beginners #github

2 min read

JLi

Oct 10 '21

My first Hacktoberfest PR

#hacktoberfest #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Oct 20 '21

A righteous PR

#react #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Oct 19 '21

13 Reasons Why You Should Use Linux!!

#linux #beginners #opensource #ubuntu

9 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Oct 1 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021 is Here 🎃

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta #contributorswanted

4 min read

Asmit Malakannawar

Oct 20 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021: My Experience

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

4 min read

Oct 9 '21

First Experience with Hacktoberfest (2021)

#hacktoberfest #beginners #github #opensource

3 min read

Avneesh Agarwal for ByteSlash

Oct 19 '21

Create nice Readmes for your open source projects ✨

#opensource #webdev #markdown #github

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Eevis

Oct 19 '21

Making Better Pull Requests

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #programming

5 min read

Thalles Augusto(ThesllaDev)

Oct 19 '21

Guia e recursos open source para participar do Hacktoberfest 2021

#beginners #braziliandevs #opensource #hacktoberfest

7 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Prithvi for LitmusChaos

Oct 19 '21

Hacktoberfest 2021 with LitmusChaos

#hacktoberfest #litmuschaos #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

AnkithaTech11 for Aviyel Inc

Oct 19 '21

Coffee and Code: Explore Front-End Documentation best practices using Docz and React!

#opensource #docz #documentation #react

1 min read

Tim Wong

Oct 18 '21

A smarter dotenv for Node.js

#node #javascript #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Arimoro Olamilekan Ezekiel

Oct 19 '21

A Beginner Journey to Typesense Dashboard

#typesense #aviyel #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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