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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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Wow, I completed 4 PR this year Hacktoberfest! 🎉🌟😁

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #git

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#hacktoberfest #flutter #opensource #programming

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Tiiny Host

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The Ultimate List of Markdown Presentation Tools

#beginners #tutorial #opensource #html

3 min read

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Abhishek Chaudhary for TheAbbie

Oct 25 '21

Interactive Double Pendulum Playground Using SVG

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

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Sambhav Agrawal

Oct 25 '21

Completed Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #opensource #devops

1 min read

Shubhendu Madhukar

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File Based API Mocking in JavaScript

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tooling

2 min read

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Aravind Kumar Vemula

Oct 25 '21

Hacktoberfest-accepted

#challenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

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#hacktoberfest #appwrite #opensource

5 min read

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Ben Adams

Oct 25 '21

V8

#javascript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Oct 25 '21

Today I successfully completed Hacktoberfest 2021!

#javascript #hacktoberfest #java #opensource

1 min read

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BUILDING A FULL API with NodeJS + Strapi in 5 minutes or less (amazing!)

#node #javascript #strapi #opensource

2 min read

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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

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Building Tailwind CSS checkbox and radio input fields

#tailwindcss #tutorial #webdev #opensource

5 min read

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Sanjanaprasad2001 for Hack This Fall

Oct 24 '21

My takeaways as a Hackathon Evangelist at Hack This Fall 2.0

#opensource #devjournal #career #hacktoberfest

4 min read

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Hunt Navar

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What is a honeypot and why might it be important?

#opensource #webdev #programming #cybersecurity

2 min read

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maru44

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Minimum Library to Handle Error for Go

#go #opensource

2 min read

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Oct 24 '21

Vision behind maintaining an opensource Project in Hacktoberfest 2021?

#hacktoberfest #javascript #angular #opensource

2 min read

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Ivo Meißner for Slicknode

Oct 13 '21

Announcing Slicknode Open-Source: GraphQL Framework + Headless CMS

#graphql #webdev #opensource #programming

4 min read

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Oct 23 '21

Setting Up Neovim like VSCode

#vim #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

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Sam E. Lawrence

Oct 24 '21

Constructing Custom Locators in OpenTest

#opensource #testing #android #javascript

3 min read

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Working with Git Remotes

#github #git #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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Michelle Duke for GitHub

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#github #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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My Experience as Maintainer for Hacktoberfest 2021

#hacktoberfest #opensource #experience #devjournal

2 min read

Thanh Van

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First experience with Pull Request

#beginners #opensource #webdev

2 min read

masaushi

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How to find OSS projects for your first contribution

#challenge #opensource #beginners #github

1 min read

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Oct 23 '21

First Hacktoberfest and open source contributionand ,How I am start

#showdev #hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource

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