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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.

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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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Stephan B. R. Langenau

Oct 12 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 - Beginner Repository

#hacktoberfest #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Floor Drees for For Devs community

Oct 12 '20

CONTRIBUTING: John Papa on Peacock

#hacktoberfest #opensource #opensourceoctober #vscode

2 min read

Alexander

Oct 11 '20

Learn How to Contribute to Open Source in < 7 Minutes.

#opensource #hacktoberfest #tutorial #beginners

6 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Oct 11 '20

Open Source: 1st week done and I'm loving it! 🥰

#opensource #hacktoberfest #frontend #react

2 min read

Arnab Sen

Oct 11 '20

Ten Days of Code: by NIT Dgp Introduction

#opensource #hacktoberfest #python

2 min read

Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 for For Devs community

Sep 30 '20

CONTRIBUTING: Wassim Chegham on Compodoc

#hacktoberfest #opensource #opensourceoctober

2 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 7 '20

How to find Open Source projects on GitHub

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #ruby

2 min read

Oct 11 '20

Open source projects you can contribute to this Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Arnab Sen

Oct 11 '20

Ten Days of Code: Task 1

#hacktoberfest #python #opensource

2 min read

MeStrak

Oct 11 '20

Guidebook: fostering open source in a large corporate environment (part 1 of 2)

#opensource #productivity

8 min read

Henry

Oct 10 '20

Can Programming be Emotional?

#discuss #opensource #javascript #beginners

2 min read

Oct 9 '20

Hacktoberfest - through a different lens. 🌳

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

8 min read

RIshi Dutt Shukla

Oct 8 '20

Importance of Licensing your code & choosing a license on GitHub

#opensource

2 min read

Supabase for Supabase

Oct 8 '20

Supabase: seven months of building.

#postgres #javascript #opensource #github

3 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Oct 9 '20

Week 2: Forem Hacktoberfest Twitch Events Recap

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta

2 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 6 '20

Bootstrap 5 Templates - Open-source and Free

#webdev #bootstrap5 #opensource

3 min read

Alexandru Naiman

Sep 7 '20

Starting the Github Actions Hackathon

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

abhik99

Oct 10 '20

Another Hacktoberfest post

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

Anja

Oct 10 '20

6 great apps for Linux

#linux #opensource

1 min read

Thamara Andrade

Oct 10 '20

Contributing to Open-Source, a brief how-to

#opensource #github #git #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Christina Gorton for The DEV Team

Oct 5 '20

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

#opensource #gratitude #meta #hacktoberfest

2 min read

YaelRiv

Sep 7 '20

How to pick the right Postgres?

#postgres #database #opensource

1 min read

Oct 10 '20

My First Open Source Contribution : Hacktoberfest '20

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

Rossella Ferrandino

Oct 10 '20

Making the world a better place with open source

#opensource #speakher #womenintech #codenewbie

2 min read

Meer Hamza

Oct 10 '20

My Hacktober-Fest 2020 experience

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

2 min read

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