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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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Isso não acaba aqui!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners #braziliandevs

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Code Smell 277 - UPPERCASE Acronyms

#webdev #beginners #programming #opensource

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Uday R

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My Hacktoberfest 2024 Recap

#hacktoberfest #opensource

5 min read

Uday R

Nov 1 '24

Dipping Into a Java Project

#opensource #java #hacktoberfest

6 min read

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Sam

Oct 31 '24

Open-source NL-based data platform

#datascience #ai #opensource #typescript

2 min read

TheoForger

Sep 27 '24

A Rusty Three-Way Merge

#opensource #beginners #git #rust

4 min read

Tawhid

Oct 31 '24

Mseal in Linux: An un-hackable solution?

#linux #opensource #security

3 min read

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vincanger for Wasp

Oct 22 '24

Making the most annoying cookie banners we could think of 🍪🤬

#webdev #cookies #react #opensource

3 min read

Sep 27 '24

Study Buddy

#programming #python #ai #opensource

1 min read

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A month long code quest: oss.gg hackathon

#ossgg #opensource #hackathon

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Shashank Saxena

Oct 28 '24

Hacktoberfest 2024!

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

arinak1017

Sep 27 '24

Working on Different Branches & Merging

#ai #opensource

2 min read

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Oct 31 '24

Notes from the All Things Open conference USA

#opensource #beginners #career #learning

2 min read

YOSHITHA RATHNAYAKE

Oct 31 '24

Let's Hack October: Dive into Open Source with Hacktoberfest 2024!

#hacktoberfest #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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Oct 31 '24

My Experience with the OSS.GG Hackathon: Diving into Open Source with Twenty, Unkey, and Formbricks

#opensource #hacktoberfest #programming

5 min read

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