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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.

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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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Navendu Pottekkat

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Contributing to Documentation in Open-Source

#opensource #beginners #codenewbie #tutorial

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Okyn

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My (first) Hacktoberfest journey

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

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Celebrating Open Source : Hacktoberfest, 2021

#hacktoberfest #opensource #coding

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Anibal Sanchez for PHP-Prefixer

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How To: Using Guzzle and prefixing a WordPress plugin

#php #opensource #wordpress #tutorial

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Vladimir Klepov

Nov 15 '21

SemVer: The Tricky Parts

#javascript #programming #opensource

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Console #76 -- Symbolica, Mastodon, and Uptime Kuma

#interview #opensource

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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

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Building a Tailwind CSS toggle/switch component

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial #webdev

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KeyDelivery Support for KeyDelivery

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Free All-in-one & Real-time Shipment Tracking API

#devops #webdev #programming #opensource

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Tamojeet Kuila (Ahaan)

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My 1st Hacktoberfest.

#hacktoberfest #opensource #productivity #experience

2 min read

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Top 10 Remote Jobs Website for Web Developers

#webdev #programming #tutorial #opensource

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#opensource #hacktoberfest #github

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Flask Black Dashboard - Product Update

#webdev #flask #dashboards #opensource

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How I completed my HacktoberFest 21 Journey

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #beginners

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#opensource #javascript #github

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Compose Generator - Update 1.2.0

#docker #go #opensource #devops

2 min read

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Ben Herbst

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Idaesbasic - An all in one project manager

#java #javafx #productivity #opensource

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Seif Lotfy

Nov 6 '21

Give your GitHub repository README.md some insightful eye-candy

#news #opensource #github #motivation

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Subscribing to concurrent property updates

#concurrency #java #opensource #subscribers

5 min read

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Asim Aslam for M3O

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Why developers need an AWS alternative

#aws #m3o #cloud #opensource

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aakas

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Hacktoberfest 2021 Experience

#challenge #hacktoberfest #experience #opensource

2 min read

dbelokon

Nov 6 '21

Stepping into Static Analysis Tooling

#opensource #csharp #git #github

3 min read

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Shruti Arora for Hack This Fall

Nov 6 '21

A Session on Git and GitHub.

#opensource #github #git

2 min read

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#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #programming

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#opensource #javascript #git #vscode

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Deepjyoti Barman

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Setup your own blog on top of GitHub

#opensource #github #beginners #webdev

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