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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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Victor Bordo for DevFlight

Oct 1 '19

17 tips for new contributors to open source

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #career

5 min read

MKilmer

Sep 29 '19

how to join open source projects?

#opensource #tips #webdev

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Tim Deschryver for Angular

Oct 1 '19

Hacktoberfest: share your favorite Angular resource

#hacktoberfest #angular #opensource #contributorswanted

1 min read

Gaveen Prabhasara

Oct 14 '19

The future of networking is software

#devops #networking #softwaredriven #opensource

6 min read

Oct 2 '19

Where do you store your .env files?

#discuss #devops #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Ryan Doyle

Sep 29 '19

GIT for Dummies

#git #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Marcelo Gonçalves

Oct 2 '19

Translations can boost your learning process

#hacktoberfest #opensource #learning #braziliandevs

2 min read

Oct 1 '19

Get release updates from open source projects to your email.

#opensource #javascript #webdev #react

1 min read

Ekunola Ezekiel

Oct 1 '19

My Hacktoberfest Contributions 😅

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Sep 30 '19

How I stopped procrastinating and did something

#showdev #productivity #javascript #opensource

6 min read

This Dot Media for This Dot

Oct 1 '19

Software Migrations

#migrations #opensource

4 min read

🦁 Yvonnick FRIN for Zenika

Oct 1 '19

A participation guide for Hacktoberfest

#tutorial #opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners

2 min read

Oct 1 '19

Open source made easier

#opensource #github #hacktoberfest #kotlin

3 min read

Palash Bauri 👻

Oct 1 '19

Hacktoberfest Done 💥 but Not Done 🚀

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

Nočnica Mellifera for Heroku

Sep 26 '19

Making Money with Open Source

#opensource #insidebaseball #saas

4 min read

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