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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 5 '20

Hacktoberfest - the collaborators side

#hacktoberfest #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Sep 24 '20

Who's participating in Hacktoberfest 2020?

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Ilya Lesik for brainhub

Oct 5 '20

Our open-source in Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #react #opensource

3 min read

Oct 5 '20

Release 0.2.2 or, Standing on the Shoulders of a small project

#opensource #python #github #javascript

3 min read

Jayesh Tembhekar ⚡

Oct 5 '20

Annnd., completed ! 🤩

#discuss #hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Sep 24 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: Registration Now Open 🎃

#opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Floor Drees for For Devs community

Oct 5 '20

CONTRIBUTING: better Docs, with Carolyn Stransky

#hacktoberfest #opensourceoctober #opensource #alexjs

4 min read

Oct 4 '20

J.A.R.V.I.S v2.0 is Released!! | Come and Contribute | HacktoberFest 2020

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #python

2 min read

Kim 🙃

Oct 5 '20

Developer Digital Meetup Tour... and more!!

#meetup #api #microservices #opensource

3 min read

βετα

Oct 5 '20

Distributed Applications: Building More Completely with the Right Tools

#blockchain #opensource #smartcontracts #distributedsystems

3 min read

Oct 5 '20

Odoo Rental Management System

#odoo #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Floor Drees for For Devs community

Oct 5 '20

CONTRIBUTING: Tomáš Herceg on DotVVM

#opensource #hacktoberfest #opensourceoctober

2 min read

Oct 5 '20

The story of how I (kinda') fixed AWS Kinesis Producers, helped a student, and saved humanity hundreds of man-hours!

#webdev #opensource #aws #devops

7 min read

Oct 5 '20

Adding badges to your open source project in 2 seconds

#opensource #github #productivity

2 min read

Oct 5 '20

Offen goes Hacktoberfest

#watercooler #hacktoberfest #webdev #opensource

1 min read

John Lafleur for Airbyte

Oct 5 '20

Why You Should Consider a Soft Launch

#startup #opensource

4 min read

Oct 5 '20

Merging Makes the Spice Flow

#opensource #python #github #git

3 min read

X-Cyborg

Oct 4 '20

MY FIRST HACKTOBER-FEST

#github #opensource #hacktoberfest2020 #hacknight

2 min read

Manuel Castellin

Oct 1 '20

Hacktoberfest - Ideas for Contributing as a Beginner

#hacktoberfest #beginners #github #opensource

4 min read

Banji

Oct 2 '20

GitLab has Blocked Iran!

#discuss #webdev #opensource #github

1 min read

Oct 3 '20

Set Yourself Up For Success During Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

5 min read

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Sep 23 '20

GitHub Actions Hackathon Winners, Announced!

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource

3 min read

Thew

Oct 1 '20

DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

Amanda Fawcett for Educative

Oct 2 '20

How to use an API: fetch daily images with NASA's Open API

#api #python #opensource #webdev

12 min read

Oct 3 '20

Refactoring Verify-URL

#watercooler #opensource #python

1 min read

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