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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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Ayu Adiati

Oct 1 '23

Ayu's Hacktoberfest 2023 Pledge

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #codenewbie

2 min read

Amit Kumar Rout

Oct 2 '23

Created My First npx Package: "create-sra"

#webdev #javascript #opensource #react

2 min read

Ashley Willis for GitHub

Sep 25 '23

How to Be a Good Open Source Contributor During Hacktoberfest and Beyond

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #beginners #git

7 min read

Oct 2 '23

Working with JSON in PostgreSQL, why?

#postgres #apacheage #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Oct 1 '23

Part 1 - Content Generation

#ai #python #openai #opensource

5 min read

Geri Máté for dyrector.io

Oct 2 '23

Hacktoberfest Is the Ultimate Developer Experience Lesson

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

5 min read

Dmitry Shatokhin

Oct 2 '23

When changes are too expensive: JavaScript and data change performance.

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

6 min read

Francesco Sardone

Oct 2 '23

No More Problems With GitHub Issues

#github #opensource #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

The Vedic Developer

Oct 2 '23

Start Your Open Source Journey with EVENTRON

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #hacktoberfest23

1 min read

Oct 1 '23

🔥🚀 Hacktoberfest 2023 : : The Beginner level Guidance ✨👩‍💻

#hacktoberfest23 #appwritehack #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Oct 2 '23

Hacktoberfest PR 1

#hacktoberfest23 #javascript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Bobur Umurzokov for Apache APISIX

Oct 1 '23

Adapting API Strategies to Dynamic AI Trend

#ai #api #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Oct 1 '23

Release 0.34.0 of Spellcheck (GitHub) Action - another maintenance release

#release #opensource #githubaction

3 min read

Everkers

Oct 1 '23

Taming Async Operations in React with use-async-stateful

#webdev #react #programming #opensource

2 min read

Shreya for Firecamp

Sep 30 '23

🔥Hacktoberfest 2023! let's gooo 🚀

#opensource #hacktoberfest23 #programming #api

3 min read

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