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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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Install Apache on Windows in a Few Simple Steps

#webdev #tutorial #opensource #learning

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Theekshana Chamodhya

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The 5 Most Underrated Python Libraries You Should Start Using Right Now

#python #beginners #opensource #programming

5 min read

Oct 29 '24

Embracing Hacktoberfest: A Beginner's Journey into Open Source

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Jeanine Duchaney

Oct 29 '24

Introduction 🎃

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Jeanine Duchaney

Oct 29 '24

The hardest part of Hacktoberfest isn't the code 🚫

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Francesco Ciulla

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All the Rust Features

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

5 min read

Nov 2 '24

Automated Log Analysis and Reporting with Python, Bash, and PowerShell

#automation #bash #python #opensource

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Sam

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10 First Git Commands You Need to Know

#git #tutorial #beginners #opensource

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Jeanine Duchaney

Oct 29 '24

GitHub's help resources will only get you so far with Hacktoberfest 📖

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

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Oct 28 '24

My First Hacktoberfest Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Saumya Subham Mishra

Oct 28 '24

My Road to the Hacktoberfest 2024.

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Jeanine Duchaney

Oct 29 '24

The BEST way to search for a Hacktoberfest repository 🔎

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

Edwin Kys

Oct 31 '24

Phantasm: A Human Approval Layer For AI Agents

#news #machinelearning #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Lymah

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My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

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Nov 1 '24

Release Radar · October 2024: Major updates from the open source community

#news #github #community #opensource

5 min read

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