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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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Akash Jana

Oct 28 '24

🌱 My 1st Hacktoberfest Experience: A Journey of Code, Challenges, and Community

#hacktoberfest #opensource #devchallenge

5 min read

Dhanush

Oct 30 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024 Experience of a Java Developer and a Contributor

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Easy Tuts

Oct 30 '24

Coding, Collaborating, and Contributing: My Hacktoberfest Journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Nov 4 '24

What Are Blacklist, Whitelist, Greylist, and Monitor Mode in Cybersecurity?

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Nov 4 '24

Reflecting my hacktoberfest journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Aditya

Oct 30 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey: Learning, Growing, and Giving Back 🎉

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Spandan Mukherjee

Oct 31 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey as a Maintainer with Github_Open_World 🌍

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

Thalles Augusto(ThesllaDev)

Nov 4 '24

My Hacktoberfest Journey: From First Pull Request to the Hall of Fame

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

9 min read

Oct 30 '24

My First Step 👣 into the World of Open-Source 👨‍💻

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Mr Chike

Nov 4 '24

Build, Innovate & Collaborate: Setting Up TensorFlow for Open Source Contribution! 🚀✨

#tensorflow #python #opensource #machinelearning

9 min read

Mark Seif

Oct 31 '24

I didn't know it was this exciting !

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

William Miller Jr

Nov 4 '24

My First Hacktoberfest as a Repo Maintainer: A Journey of Growth and Learning

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Josef Doctorovitz

Nov 3 '24

How AI-Powered Product Recommendations Are Revolutionizing Online Shopping

#ai #webdev #beginners #opensource

5 min read

Reka Thana

Nov 4 '24

Reflecting on My Hacktoberfest Journey as a First-Time Contributor

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Nov 3 '24

Testing & Mocking With Jest!

#testing #opensource #typescript #openai

3 min read

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