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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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Tania Allard for Microsoft Azure

Sep 28 '20

Contributing to open source projects: let's get us all started

#beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Sep 28 '20

How to create an excel sheet in android

#android #java #github #opensource

1 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Sep 28 '20

The First Open Source Contributor Summit

#contributorswanted #opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript

1 min read

Christian Schwendtner for For Devs community

Sep 28 '20

CONTRIBUTING: Igor Rončević on Sharpen

#hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Sep 28 '20

A noobs guide to Google Summer of Code.

#opensource #gsoc

3 min read

Marvin

Sep 28 '20

ColorDetection - Python ColorDetect package

#python #opensource #datascience #tutorial

6 min read

Sep 28 '20

How I review Tails components. 👨‍💼

#opensource #webdev #devdojo #tails

3 min read

Sep 26 '20

Contributing to Open Source

#opensource #beginners

7 min read

Susnata Goswami

Sep 30 '20

4 PRs in 3 hours 🚀. Will be solving more major issues this month itself.

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #contribution

1 min read

Sep 27 '20

G6 3.8 is Released

#opensource #javascript #typescript #visualization

5 min read

Michelle Mei-Ling Sandford

Sep 27 '20

Lessons in GitHub and in Life #Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #career

5 min read

Hridayesh Sharma for LoginRadius

Sep 27 '20

LoginRadius Open Source For Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource #loginradius

1 min read

Sanand

Sep 26 '20

How to publish your apps on F-Droid?

#opensource #android

4 min read

b4rtaz

Sep 27 '20

T3MPL - open source website generator

#news #opensource #html #webdev

1 min read

Kathryn DiPippo

Sep 27 '20

Submit Your Hacktoberfest Repos to up-for-grabs!

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

Sm0ke

Sep 19 '20

How I’ve built 300+ open-source projects with automation tools

#webdev #automation #opensource #appseed

7 min read

Dan

Sep 26 '20

Awesome Open Source Badges for your Git README

#badges #readme #opensource #shields

7 min read

Sep 26 '20

How to start with Hacktoberfest?

#help #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Sep 26 '20

Hacktober Fest

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Ray

Sep 26 '20

Link Checker Release v0.1

#opensource

2 min read

Sep 26 '20

Supports From the Community

#opensource

2 min read

Deepak Raj for Py-Contributors

Sep 25 '20

How I am managing ton of Issue and Pull request message with Discord-Webhooks?

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #git

1 min read

Phan Hieu Nguyen

Sep 25 '20

My first collaboration in OpenSource

#opensource #beginners

1 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Sep 25 '20

Get involved in Open Source because the Maintainers will help you

#opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript #postgres

2 min read

Justin E. Samuels

Sep 25 '20

Rebuild Black Business Episode 2, Houston

#showdev #blacklivesmatter #career #opensource

4 min read

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