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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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Oct 13 '20

Implement OCR with React#1

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #react

3 min read

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Sep 29 '20

Hacktoberfest: 69 Beginner-Friendly Projects You Can Contribute To

#opensource #beginners #github #hacktoberfest

6 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

VIMAL KUMAR for Web

Oct 12 '20

Master-Portfolio :Create a Portfolio Website in Minutes

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #react

3 min read

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Yoginth for Taskord

Oct 13 '20

Taskord Changelog - Oct 13

#showdev #opensource #productivity #changelog

1 min read

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Mayank Choudhary

Oct 13 '20

Webiny - Opensource platform for building serverless applications and APIs.

#opensource #serverless #aws #webiny

1 min read

Oct 12 '20

Understanding ngrx/component-store debounceSync()

#angular #ngrx #rxjs #opensource

5 min read

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Oct 9 '20

Make your first contribution during Hacktoberfest 🍁

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

3 min read

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Corentin Girard

Oct 12 '20

A funny thing about npm

#discovery #npm #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Oct 12 '20

Merge branches into Master

#opensource #git

3 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 12 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 39

#aws #opensource

19 min read

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Andrea Cavagna | AWS builder

Oct 12 '20

AWS SSO VS Cross-account role-based IAM access. Why and how to use roles?

#opensource #aws #tutorial #cloud

6 min read

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Alexander

Oct 11 '20

Learn How to Contribute to Open Source in < 7 Minutes.

#opensource #hacktoberfest #tutorial #beginners

6 min read

Brayden W ⚡️

Oct 11 '20

Open Source: 1st week done and I'm loving it! 🥰

#opensource #hacktoberfest #frontend #react

2 min read

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Arnab Sen

Oct 11 '20

Ten Days of Code: by NIT Dgp Introduction

#opensource #hacktoberfest #python

2 min read

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 7 '20

How to find Open Source projects on GitHub

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #ruby

2 min read

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