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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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Nahrin Jalal for Vonage Developers

Oct 19 '20

33 High Impact Open Source Projects Seeking Contributors

#opensource #career #hacktoberfest #contributorswanted

9 min read

Manish Kumar Barnwal

Oct 17 '20

Completed Hacktobefest Challenge

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

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Syakir

Sep 28 '20

21 React Example Projects to Learn From (Open-source, Beginner-Intermediate Level)

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

9 min read

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Abhijit Tripathy

Oct 17 '20

The journey of Open Source and my first Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Kiran Iyer

Oct 17 '20

My first contribution to open-source

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #webdev

1 min read

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Oct 14 '20

Lessons from a ten year open source maintainer

#opensource #github #career

3 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Oct 12 '20

My Journey into Open Source

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie #hacktoberfest

3 min read

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D\sTro

Oct 16 '20

Super secure communications algorithm

#opensource #go #javascript #devops

2 min read

Mayank Jha

Oct 16 '20

My First Hacktoberfest Experience

#github #hacktoberfest #devops #opensource

1 min read

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Adam Gordon Bell

Oct 16 '20

How To Make Integration Tests Less Flaky

#opensource #devops #testing #tutorial

4 min read

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D\sTro

Oct 16 '20

Neuralink: behind the scene

#discuss #webdev #python #opensource

1 min read

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Oct 16 '20

Implement OCR with React#2

#beginners #opensource #tutorial #react

2 min read

Oct 16 '20

Starting open source contribution with Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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D\sTro

Oct 16 '20

Debate: Symfony VS Laravel

#discuss #php #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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Rishabh Singh ⚡

Oct 15 '20

Hacktoberfest Guide for Beginners

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #beginners

4 min read

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