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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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Oct 8 '19

🔴 Watch Me Guide You Through Your 1st Contributions To OSS [LIVE VIDEO]

#opensource #javascript #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 2 '19

How I Became a React Contributor Four Years Ago

#hacktoberfest #opensource #career #react

1 min read

Oct 9 '19

Open Source is Broken

#explainlikeimfive #ethics #opensource

22 min read

Jeremy Morgan for Pluralsight

Sep 21 '19

Which Distribution of Linux Should I Use?

#linux #beginners #opensource

8 min read

🦁 Yvonnick FRIN

Oct 7 '19

First week of Hacktoberfest

#showdev #hacktoberfest #contributorswanted #opensource

3 min read

Noman Gul

Oct 5 '19

When you joined GitHub? WE KNOW! 😄 Octocat Day - Your Open-Source Birthday

#opensource #github #react #hacktoberfest

1 min read

shushugah for Tech Workers Coalition

Oct 6 '19

What is stopping you from joining a union?

#discuss #career #opensource #healthydebate

1 min read

Shannon Crabill

Oct 6 '19

What was your first Hacktoberfest contribution?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #git

1 min read

dAVE Inden

Oct 6 '19

What Whitney Houston taught me about Open Source Software

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Oct 6 '19

15 wisdom pearls on Software Architecture for Open Source projects

#architecture #books #beginners #opensource

3 min read

Swapnil Agarwal

Oct 5 '19

Hacktoberfest 2019 — Time to Start your Open-Source Journey!

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #beginners

2 min read

Oct 4 '19

Should Profitable Companies Fund Open Source They Use?

#discuss #opensource #github #ethics

3 min read

Oct 3 '19

Git process and commands to know to contribute to an open-source project

#hacktoberfest #pullrequest #opensource #github

2 min read

Oct 4 '19

Become Github Student Developer

#developerpack #student #github #opensource

2 min read

dAVE Inden

Oct 3 '19

Git Workflow: How much change is too much change for one commit for you?

#discuss #git #opensource

1 min read

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