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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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Sep 16 '20

Get a custom formatted email message with PR info using Github Actions

#showdev #actionshackathon #github #opensource

2 min read

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Carolyn Stransky

Sep 16 '20

Community Bonding with the GraphQL Foundation for Google Season of Docs

#opensource #documentation #graphql

4 min read

Sep 16 '20

What's New In Odoo V14? Odoo V14 Updates, Features & Road Map

#opensource #erp #update #features

1 min read

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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Sep 16 '20

How to add Bootstrap to HTML

#bootstrap #html #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

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Amruta Ranade for Cockroach Labs

Sep 10 '20

An Absolute Beginner’s Checklist for Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners #codenewbie

4 min read

Brian Douglas for GitHub

Sep 15 '20

Learn how JavaScript advances DateTime with proposal-temporal

#github #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Shi Han

Sep 13 '20

Publishing DEV articles from GitHub

#showdev #github #actionshackathon #opensource

5 min read

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Sep 15 '20

Testing Github Codespaces beta🔥🐱‍💻

#github #opensource #react #javascript

3 min read

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AnkitAgrawal967

Sep 15 '20

Kine — Android/Kotlin Networking in 2020

#android #kotlin #networking #opensource

2 min read

Ferdinand Mütsch

Sep 15 '20

GitHub Action to turn your profile README into a guestbook

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 15 '20

Initial Release

#news #opensource #github

1 min read

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Yoginth for Taskord

Sep 15 '20

Taskord Changelog - Sep 15

#showdev #opensource #productivity #changelog

1 min read

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Sharad Raj (He/Him)

Sep 14 '20

Live Preview 😲 (From workflow without deploying): Github Action

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource #github

1 min read

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Alexandru Naiman

Sep 14 '20

Rick Roll Action

#actionshackathon #opensource #github #codenewbie

1 min read

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Alexandru Naiman

Sep 14 '20

Where's Waldo Action

#actionshackathon #codenewbie #github #opensource

1 min read

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