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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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Oct 24 '23

Hacktoberfest: PR #4

#opensource #hacktoberfest23 #javascript #testing

2 min read

OpenSource for Webcrumbs

Oct 24 '23

Why I believe in open source

#opensource #javascript #community #diversity

2 min read

Oct 24 '23

My Hacktoberfest'23 Experience

#hack23contributor #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Aditya Oberai for Appwrite

Oct 23 '23

Make open source healthier by being a better contributor

#opensource #hacktoberfest #beginners #programming

4 min read

Oct 23 '23

Hacktoberfest Recap

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #webdev #javascript

4 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 23 '23

AWS open source newsletter, #176

#opensource #aws

18 min read

maitri-vv

Oct 24 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: Embracing Open Source, Learning, and Gratitude

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest23 #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

Oct 24 '23

Placeholder Contributor: A Beginner's Guide

#hack23contributor #webdev #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Ayu Adiati

Oct 20 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: First Experience as a Maintainer

#hack23maintainer #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #hacktoberfest

6 min read

Scofield Idehen

Oct 22 '23

The Complete Git Tutorial for Beginners: Master Version Control and Start Contributing to Open Source

#github #programming #beginners #opensource

9 min read

RoboCoach

Oct 23 '23

Looking inside ROScribe and the idea of LLM-based robotic platform

#robotics #opensource #ros #ai

8 min read

Nik L.

Oct 22 '23

IMAP vs POP3 vs SMTP - A Comprehensive Guide for Choosing the Right Email Protocol

#discuss #smtp #webdev #opensource

7 min read

Oct 13 '23

Flutter docs Navigation

#flutter #opensource #programming #tutorial

10 min read

Nilanchal

Oct 22 '23

Introducing Bloggy: The Open-Source Blogging Platform Built with Python and Django

#python #opensource #django #github

2 min read

Mark Phelps for Flipt

Oct 23 '23

Generating Types for Feature Flags

#typescript #featureflags #opensource #devops

5 min read

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