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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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Ali Abbas

Oct 23 '19

Google Summer of Code 🏆

#opensource #github #contributorswanted #webdev

4 min read

Steven Mercatante

Oct 23 '19

📢 Announcing React Timeline

#showdev #react #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Dominik Kundel for Twilio

Oct 21 '19

Learn How to Contribute to Open Source

#opensource #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Oct 25 '19

Completed hacktoberfest19 challenge

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Ben Lovy

Oct 23 '19

Is DRM malicious code?

#discuss #healthydebate #watercooler #opensource

1 min read

Cem Ugur Karacam

Oct 24 '19

Completed Hacktoberfest!

#hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Ovi Demetrian Jr

Oct 24 '19

Starter email template skeleton layout for designing and building emails

#opensource #productivity #html #webdev

1 min read

Artur Neumann for JankariTech

Oct 23 '19

No experience, no job!

#job #opensource #beginners #career

2 min read

Sushil Shrestha

Oct 24 '19

Hacktoberfest2019 Swag Redeemed

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 24 '19

Introducing manven

#python #opensource

1 min read

Ali Kazmi

Oct 23 '19

Redux Redone: Learning Redux by recreating it from scratch

#react #redux #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Oct 23 '19

Connecting to your network on Centos 8 minimal (maybe trickier than you'd expect)

#linux #tutorial #devops #opensource

3 min read

Oct 14 '19

Hacktoberfest: Getting Over the Fear of Open Source

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Orestis Pantazos

Oct 23 '19

🔑 Self-signed SSL certificate in Tomcat

#devops #opensource

2 min read

J. R. Swab

Oct 21 '19

How To Make The Switch To Linux

#linux #opensource #archlinux #ubuntu

4 min read

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