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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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Ren Hiyama

Oct 5 '23

Welcome to the dark side. Ree.js awaits you!

#webdev #javascript #react #opensource

4 min read

Oct 6 '23

The Hacking Updates

#github #devops #opensource #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Mohamed Khaled Yousef

Oct 6 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023: Contributing to React & Next.js projects

#hacktoberfest #react #nextjs #opensource

1 min read

Oct 6 '23

🐍 The Journey of Creating the Smallest Snake Game in the World🐍

#assembly #opensource #programming #coding

4 min read

Adrian Finantyo 🌱

Sep 30 '23

Is Golang Easy to Learn? 🤔

#discuss #go #codenewbie #opensource

3 min read

Oct 5 '23

Do not take part in Hacktoberfest, unless...

#discuss #opensource #programming #tutorial

1 min read

Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Oct 4 '23

Give credit to Open Source Contributors

#opensource #github #hacktoberfest23

2 min read

Nischal Jain for Collectiv AI

Oct 4 '23

Hacktoberfest 2023 - How AI can create an impact on Open Source Contributions

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #ai

3 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Hoppscotch

Oct 5 '23

How to contribute to Hoppscotch 🛸?

#opensource #hoppscotch #api #hacktoberfest23

4 min read

James Ritchie for Trigger.dev

Oct 5 '23

Trigger.dev update – September 2023

#opensource #typescript #javascript #webdev

2 min read

Ably Blog for Ably

Oct 5 '23

The top 11 React chart libraries for data visualization

#react #opensource #library

8 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 4 '23

Tailwind & Django - Free Starter

#tailwindcss #django #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Tykok

Oct 5 '23

PokeAPI Library 🚀

#programming #tutorial #opensource #kotlin

4 min read

Guillermo Ruiz for AWS Español

Oct 5 '23

Boletín AWS Open Source #173

#opensource #aws #developers

20 min read

Max Bantsevich for dev.family

Oct 5 '23

Admiral. Roles and access division in the menu

#react #tutorial #opensource #github

3 min read

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