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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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MEAN/MERN/LAMP/SST

#webdev #programming #opensource

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Key Linux Commands for Disk Space Analysis

#linux #bash #tutorial #opensource

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Namatuzio

Oct 26 '23

Contributing to the Community: Hacktoberfest PR #2

#opensource #git #beginners #javascript

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Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

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Hacktoberfest'23: Acting like a dev

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #beginners

2 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

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The Need for Recognition in Open Source

#opensource #hacktoberfest #webdev #career

4 min read

BitKnight

Oct 26 '23

React native calorie tracking app Calpal (opensource)

#opensource #reactnative #aws #beginners

3 min read

Amnish Singh Arora

Oct 25 '23

My second Hacktoberfest PR!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev #javascript

3 min read

dev264

Oct 25 '23

Have multiple config file types in a project? Here’s a single tool to validate them all!

#showdev #go #devops #opensource

1 min read

Marc Seitz for Papermark

Oct 23 '23

Open Source Document Sharing platform built developer-friendly: launches, updates, stats

#launch #react #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

Lucy for Intuit Developers

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Hacktoberfest 2023 @ Intuit: Maintainer Spotlight

#opensource #argo #graphql #hacktoberfest

5 min read

Oct 25 '23

After more than 20 years as a professional developer, I published my first dirty Open Source project

#showdev #php #opensource #programming

3 min read

Lasantha Sanjeewa Silva

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My Experience of Hacktoberfest 2023 : A Journey of Open Source Contribution

#hack23contributor #opensource #programming #python

3 min read

TechDogs for TechDogs

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Learn About The Future Of The Internet: Web 3.0

#webdev #web3 #opensource #ai

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Necati Özmen for Refine

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⚡ Complete Tutorial: React Admin Panel with refine and daisyUI

#webdev #react #tutorial #opensource

48 min read

Oct 25 '23

First Ever Experience at Hacktobefest'23 Contributor✨🎉

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest23 #webdev #opensource

2 min read

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