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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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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Abhiraj Bhowmick

Oct 2 '21

Web Dev Repos for Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #javascript #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

Anamika

Oct 2 '21

What is Appwrite and How to use it Efficiently

#appwrite #hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Oct 4 '21

Creational Patterns : Singleton

#opensource #algorithms #design #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 4 '21

Design Patterns : Introduction

#programming #opensource #algorithms #design

2 min read

Oct 4 '21

The Only Github Link You Wanted To Know

#github #programming #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Pramit Marattha for Aviyel Inc

Oct 4 '21

Web 3.0: Fusion of semantic web and Web 2.0

#web3 #semanticweb #security #opensource

4 min read

Chris Noring for Microsoft Azure

Sep 29 '21

Free Data Science for Beginners curriculum on GitHub

#beginners #tutorial #datascience #opensource

3 min read

Asmit Malakannawar

Oct 3 '21

Exploring Appwrite

#appwrite #opensource #backend

5 min read

Abdallah Mohammed

Sep 22 '21

I made my first open source project

#svelte #electron #opensource #project

2 min read

Azizul Haque Ananto

Oct 3 '21

Zero: A fast and high performance Python RPC framework for building microservices or distributed servers

#python #microservices #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Oct 1 '21

Building a Tailwind CSS button component + variants

#opensource #tailwindcss #tutorial

3 min read

Oct 2 '21

I made a tool in Rust to play mechanical keyboard sounds on every key press

#rust #opensource #keyboard #cli

1 min read

Oct 3 '21

Hacktoberfest for .NET Developers (C# Edition)

#hacktoberfest #dotnet #azure #opensource

5 min read

Oct 3 '21

Getting Started: Git and Github for beginners with Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #opensource #codenewbie

4 min read

Oct 2 '21

Open Source: Multiple branches and git merges

#opensource #javascript #github #git

3 min read

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