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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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Thomas Leathers

Oct 19 '18

Whats the most obscure open source project you've worked on?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Shobi

Oct 18 '18

I have created a chrome extension to paste random data to form fields 🎷🥁

#chromeextension #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 16 '18

Blog post: A Little Hacktoberfest Fairytale

#rust #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Feb 26 '19

How to Install Fortran Compiler in Linux

#howto #linux #opensource #fortrancompiler

1 min read

Marina Pilipenko for actiTIME Inc

Oct 18 '18

8 Free Project Management Software for Small Teams

#projectmanagement #freetools #opensource

3 min read

Thea

Oct 13 '18

The beginner's guide to contributing to projects with GitHub Desktop

#opensource #github #beginners #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Oct 15 '18

A call for kindness in open source

#opensource #podcast #python #leadership

1 min read

Nehal Hasnayeen

Oct 18 '18

Hacktoberfest: NOS for OSS projects

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginnerfriendly

1 min read

Oct 18 '18

MySQL Editor in NodeJS ~ Part Five

#mysql #node #learning #opensource

2 min read

Oct 17 '18

PROTON - Automagic python3 framework | Python MVC containerised

#python #containers #api #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 8 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (October 8th edition)

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Feb 21 '19

How to Create Your Own Linux Commands

#howto #linux #opensource #ubuntu

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 11 '18

Introducing www.techladder.io (Contributors Wanted!)

#learning #hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Oct 9 '18

How's your Hacktoberfest progress?

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Sebastiaan Deckers for Commons Host

Oct 10 '18

How we built a DOH CDN with 20+ global edge servers in 10 days.

#showdev #node #devops #opensource

7 min read

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