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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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vorillaz

Oct 20 '19

We Want Your Help to Learn Together

#showdev #javascript #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Sep 23 '19

Pay your rent from open source 💸

#discuss #opensource #watercooler

5 min read

Felippe Regazio

Oct 19 '19

A tiny "Deployer" made with Shell Script and Rsync

#showdev #productivity #devops #opensource

3 min read

Juan Alejandro Morais

Oct 16 '19

Hacktoberfest: Let's build a VS Code Extension

#hacktoberfest #opensource #vscode #typescript

2 min read

Oct 18 '19

My #100DaysOfCode challenge so far

#opensource #github #webdev #programming

1 min read

Jeremy Schuurmans

Oct 11 '19

How to sync your fork with the parent repository

#hacktoberfest #opensource #git

2 min read

Nazym

Oct 18 '19

Awesome Frontend Security

#awesome #security #frontend #opensource

1 min read

Oct 17 '19

How do you run a successful open source project

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Eddie Hale

Oct 17 '19

My first open source contribution

#opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Ahmed Atef

Oct 17 '19

Kubernetes Patterns : The Stateful Service Pattern

#kubernetes #devops #docker #opensource

1 min read

Milica Maksimovic

Oct 17 '19

Project Promotion Checklists for Developers

#beginners #startup #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Nisar Hassan Naqvi

Oct 16 '19

Frictionless Open Source Contributions with a single click

#beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript

3 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team

Oct 9 '19

Here's one way you can contribute to open source and help out DEV...

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Nerando Johnson

Oct 16 '19

Writing The Needed ReadMe

#flatiron #bootcamp #opensource #documentationvscreation

3 min read

Thomas De Moor for X-Team

Oct 24 '19

7 Most Popular Node.js Frameworks in 2019

#node #javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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