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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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James Ford

Oct 19 '19

Inspired by Open Source.

#tech #opensource #workflowautomation #innersource

7 min read

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Dominik Kundel for Twilio

Oct 18 '19

Open Source Tips from Maintainers for Maintainers

#hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Bob Walsh

Oct 18 '19

Push goals are bad for you

#development #management #opensource

1 min read

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Kevin Xu for COSS Media

Oct 18 '19

Mental Framework for Deriving Product from Open Source Project

#opensource #startup

5 min read

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Oct 15 '19

Hacktoberfest: My Journey Into Open Source

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

4 min read

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Oct 9 '19

My first time hosting a local Hacktoberfest meeting

#hacktoberfest #talk #workshop #opensource

5 min read

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Priya

Oct 14 '19

Completed My First Hacktoberfest Challenge 2019

#hacktoberfest #pullrequest #github #opensource

1 min read

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Oct 8 '19

Una - The Infinite Archipelago

#webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Cathy Casey-Richards

Oct 13 '19

Quick Tips for Contributing to Open-Source

#opensource #beginners #productivity #hacktoberfest

3 min read

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Oct 24 '16

This Week in Code, October 24th

#ddos #opensource #twic

3 min read

Boris Mann

Oct 10 '19

Commons Based Peer Production

#opensource #coase

3 min read

Malaika Ishtiaq

Oct 10 '19

My #HACKTOBERFEST PRs got reviewed 😄

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

unbug

Oct 10 '19

How does Codelf help you to name function/variable better?

#opensource #github

3 min read

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Shmavon Gazanchyan

Oct 2 '19

Hacktoberfest Tips

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #beginners

2 min read

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Johannes Lichtenberger

Oct 3 '19

Thank you so much, for all the #Hacktoberfest contributions so far 🎃🎉

#hacktoberfest #contributorswanted #opensource

1 min read

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