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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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Cathy Casey-Richards

Oct 13 '19

Quick Tips for Contributing to Open-Source

#opensource #beginners #productivity #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 12 '19

HacktoberFest - An introduction and Tip for getting started! [Video]

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #tutorial

1 min read

Oct 24 '16

This Week in Code, October 24th

#ddos #opensource #twic

3 min read

Boris Mann

Oct 10 '19

Commons Based Peer Production

#opensource #coase

3 min read

Malaika Ishtiaq

Oct 10 '19

My #HACKTOBERFEST PRs got reviewed 😄

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

unbug

Oct 10 '19

How does Codelf help you to name function/variable better?

#opensource #github

3 min read

Oct 8 '19

Contribute

#beginners #opensource #firstproject

1 min read

Ryan

Oct 5 '19

My Goals for Hacktoberfest.

#hacktoberfest #opensource #goals #devjournal

1 min read

Shmavon Gazanchyan

Oct 2 '19

Hacktoberfest Tips

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Johannes Lichtenberger

Oct 3 '19

Thank you so much, for all the #Hacktoberfest contributions so far 🎃🎉

#hacktoberfest #contributorswanted #opensource

1 min read

Rafiullah Hamedy

Oct 3 '19

Contribution Debt: Why & How to Contribute to Stack Overflow

#beginners #productivity #opensource #motivation

6 min read

Boris Mann for Fission

Oct 2 '19

Constellation Providers Lightning Talk at Decentralized Storage Summit

#constellationproviders #licensing #dweb #opensource

3 min read

Sep 30 '19

Making contributing to Open-Source easy through a simple repo

#opensource #hacktoberfest #contributorswanted #beginners

1 min read

Aditya Raj Singh

Oct 1 '19

Contributing to Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #javascript

1 min read

Helad

Sep 25 '19

Open Source is like ... PIZZA

#opensource #github #dev #code

1 min read

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