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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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Thamara Andrade

Oct 10 '20

Contributing to Open-Source, a brief how-to

#opensource #github #git #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Oct 5 '20

Hacktoberfest Week Two — Thank you to our Contributors on Forem ❤️

#opensource #gratitude #meta #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Chris Psaltis for Mist.io

Oct 6 '20

How to move files between Git repos and preserve history

#git #opensource #devops

3 min read

Kartik Choudhary

Oct 5 '20

Building a Developer Profile using Open Source

#opensource #developer #career #advice

7 min read

Oct 9 '20

project-spampr: The hero that tried saving hacktoberfest '20

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

5 min read

Amanda Engel Thilo for IT Minds

Oct 9 '20

Let's Go - an introduction to Golang

#go #googlelanguage #opensource #languages

4 min read

Tomek Poniatowicz for GraphQL Editor

Oct 8 '20

GraphQL tools & libraries pt. 3

#graphql #webdev #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Oct 1 '20

Hacktoberfest Etiquette for Contributors

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Sarthak Sharma for XenoX

Oct 5 '20

#Hacktoberfest2020 with Team XenoX - Come One and All!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #webdev

4 min read

Oct 8 '20

InstantWM: Animations in a Window Manager!

#linux #tutorial #opensource #ubuntu

5 min read

gianarb

Oct 8 '20

How bare metal provisioning works in theory

#baremetal #devops #opensource #cloud

5 min read

Ankush Singh Gandhi

Oct 8 '20

Git & Github Cheat Sheet 2022

#showdev #github #git #opensource

2 min read

Lahiru Udawaththa

Oct 8 '20

Flutter Login and Sing Up form

#flutter #dart #opensource #googlecloud

1 min read

Sara Miteva for Microtica

Oct 8 '20

Hacktoberfest Update: Microtica open-source components

#showdev #hacktoberfest #opensource #devops

2 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 1 '20

An Update on Hacktoberfest ❤️

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

2 min read

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