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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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Andy Yang

Sep 22 '20

goURL release 0.1

#opensource

1 min read

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Josh Wulf

Sep 22 '20

Creating an Extraordinary Contributor Experience

#hacktoberfest #opensource

10 min read

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Yoginth for Taskord

Sep 22 '20

Taskord Changelog - Sep 22

#showdev #opensource #productivity #changelog

1 min read

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Sep 21 '20

The Sample Programs Repos Are Ready for Hacktoberfest 2020

#algorithms #opensource #github #hacktoberfest

5 min read

DeVoresyah ArEst

Sep 22 '20

Open Source Simple Online Shop With React Native

#reactnative #mobile #opensource

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Sep 21 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 36

#aws #opensource

16 min read

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Christina Gorton

Sep 16 '20

I Joined DEV 🎉

#meta #career #opensource

2 min read

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Sep 21 '20

Open-source Maintainers' Must Haves

#opensource #programming #github

11 min read

Andrea Cavagna | AWS builder

Sep 21 '20

That’s why your next business have to be focused on Developers

#opensource #startup #freemium

7 min read

Jayesh Tembhekar ⚡

Sep 20 '20

My first Hacktoberfest 😬

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource #help

1 min read

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Sherry List 🏡 🇩🇰 for For Devs community

Sep 21 '20

CONTRIBUTING: Trevor Hinkle on electricityMap

#hacktoberfest #opensource #opensourceoctober

3 min read

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Sep 21 '20

The time is ripe for Offen

#watercooler #webdev #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Sep 20 '20

Release 0.1, Or: I'd pull my hair out... if I had any

#stress #opensource #school #python

3 min read

Sep 20 '20

GIT INIT (Part-1)

#git #opensource #beginners #github

4 min read

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Sep 20 '20

DayJS: The best lightweight alternative to momentjs

#momentjs #react #javascript #opensource

8 min read

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