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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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Gitlab Meetup Community

Oct 7 '20

Wondering what's in Gitlab 13.5?

#devops #gitlab #milestone #opensource

2 min read

Yoginth

Oct 7 '20

Taskord for next Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 16 '20

Bootstrap Templates

#webdev #bootstrap #dashboards #opensource

6 min read

Ashley Dotterweich for Mattermost

Oct 6 '20

How open source solutions help the U.S. Air Force accelerate software development and modernize collaboration

#devops #opensource #security

4 min read

Ben Soyka

Oct 6 '20

What Is Open Source Software?

#programming #technology #opensource #coding

2 min read

Puru

Oct 6 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: My journey as a maintainer

#hacktoberfest #opensource #journey #developer

2 min read

Arpit Mohan for Appsmith

Oct 6 '20

Appsmith Hacktoberfest Week 1 Update

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Yoginth for Taskord

Oct 6 '20

Taskord Changelog - Oct 6

#showdev #opensource #productivity #changelog

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 5 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 38

#aws #opensource

20 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Sep 24 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: Registration Now Open 🎃

#opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Oct 5 '20

Hacktoberfest - the collaborators side

#hacktoberfest #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Sep 24 '20

Who's participating in Hacktoberfest 2020?

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Ilya Lesik for brainhub

Oct 5 '20

Our open-source in Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #react #opensource

3 min read

Jayesh Tembhekar ⚡

Oct 5 '20

Annnd., completed ! 🤩

#discuss #hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Floor Drees for For Devs community

Oct 5 '20

CONTRIBUTING: better Docs, with Carolyn Stransky

#hacktoberfest #opensourceoctober #opensource #alexjs

4 min read

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