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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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Sneh Shah

Oct 15 '24

Getting Started with Location Tracking: Overcoming Common Development Challenges

#discuss #programming #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Oct 15 '24

My journey of Contributing at Hacktoberfest

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Carrie

Oct 15 '24

Understanding Web Functionality: Server-Side, Client-Side, State, and Sessions

#beginners #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Arnab Roy

Oct 12 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: My Journey of Open-Source Growth and Collaboration

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Oct 15 '24

Generate Python Apps with GenAI

#opensource #genai #python #react

2 min read

arinak1017

Oct 4 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024: 1st Contribution

#opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Mahak Kaur for Quash

Oct 15 '24

Join Quash MAX for Hacktoberfest 2024!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #quashmax #codingcommunity

9 min read

Carrie

Oct 15 '24

Open API Usage Tutorial for Open Source WAF SafeLine

#webdev #beginners #opensource #cybersecurity

2 min read

Francesco Ciulla

Oct 15 '24

Iterators in Rust

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

6 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 13 '24

My first time participating in Hacktoberfest 2024

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Justin Young for Excalibur

Oct 12 '24

Contributing to Excalibur

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

4 min read

K Abhiram

Oct 15 '24

Hacktoberfest: Beyond contributions

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Oct 11 '24

Week 1 of Hactoberfest 2024 : Contributor

#hacktoberfest #opensource #devchallenge

3 min read

Sep 28 '24

Top Hacktoberfest Projects to Contribute to in 2024

#hacktoberfest #programming #opensource #github

5 min read

Rahul Chakradhari

Oct 11 '24

First hacktober experience as a contributor

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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