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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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Nov 7 '20

How APIs work ?

#webdev #api #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Afshar

Nov 7 '20

IBM Call for code

#ibm #opensource #callforcode

2 min read

Nov 7 '20

COMPLETED THE HACKTOBERFEST 🤩

#hacktoberfest #github #git #opensource

1 min read

Nov 7 '20

Release 0.3.2 or, Recipes, old and new

#opensource #python

4 min read

Alan Lee

Nov 6 '20

Tracking Twitter mentions with Monday.com

#javascript #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Abdulbasid Guled

Nov 7 '20

DPS909 Lab #6: No gifs, just here to post diffs

#opensource

2 min read

Bharath

Oct 4 '20

Inviting contributions to OpenTrading!

#opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Nov 7 '20

Improving pytest's --collect-only Output

#python #pytest #opensource

3 min read

Nov 2 '20

DevOps Tools Every Engineer Should Know

#devops #opensource #ansible

5 min read

Albiona for Webiny

Nov 6 '20

What is Commercial Open Source Software

#serverless #commercial #opensource #headlesscms

5 min read

Jan van Brügge for Futurice

Nov 6 '20

My Open Source Journey

#opensource #hacktoberfest

7 min read

Myrsini Koukiasa (she/her) for Vonage Developers

Nov 19 '20

Meet The First Voyagers Crew (Part 2)

#showdev #community #opensource #vonagevoyagers

4 min read

Nov 6 '20

Improving the quality of Open Source projects

#perl #python #opensource #testing

2 min read

Nov 6 '20

Release 0.3.1 or, Why would a Telescope restrict what I can see?

#opensource #javascript #react #redis

5 min read

Nov 6 '20

How to get the version of a program in CMake

#cpp #opensource #c #cmake

4 min read

Nov 4 '20

NextJS V10 | 📝 Highlighting the good, great and awesome updates

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

4 min read

Oct 3 '20

Fork Issue Pull Merge

#opensource

1 min read

Nov 5 '20

Hello World!

#opensource #raspberrypi #linux

3 min read

Nov 5 '20

All You Need To Know About Open-Source OpenCV Projects And Libraries

#opensource #computerscience #datascience #python

1 min read

Nov 5 '20

🤬 Make users' input polite with PoliteText

#ruby #rails #codenewbie #opensource

1 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Nov 5 '20

Vue Stripe Checkout; sometimes you need to learn something because you need to

#vue #javascript #opensource #github

2 min read

Oct 16 '20

My Hactoberfest 2020 experience

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #firstcontribution

1 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Nov 2 '20

Hacktoberfest Final Week — Thank you to our Contributors on Forem ❤️

#opensource #gratitude #meta #hacktoberfest

2 min read

Nov 5 '20

I Built An Open-Source Resource for Data Scientists In an Evening

#motivation #datascience #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Brian Douglas for OpenSauced

Nov 4 '20

Tips for getting your Pull Request reviewed on GitHub

#opensource #github

5 min read

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