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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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SarraLKSC

Nov 23 '20

My HacktobereFest 2k20 experience

#microclubusthb #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

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Hasty

Dec 4 '20

Hactoberfest 2020 Badge

#hacktoberfest #webdev #opensource #firstpost

1 min read

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Avi Kapoor

Dec 4 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 Badge

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Dec 4 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 badge

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

Developer Nation Survey

Dec 4 '20

Surprises for you for our 20th anniversary, plus news from AWS: re:Invent, Microsoft and more.

#news #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Nov 4 '20

I need a contributors to my opensource project

#contributorswanted #java #opensource #github

1 min read

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Nov 23 '20

Hiyaaa!! And the hacktoberfest swags are here :)

#opensource #hacktoberfest #swags #digitalocean

1 min read

Alan Lee

Dec 3 '20

Recurring Jira tickets with Reshuffle

#opensource #javascript #reshuffle #jira

3 min read

Anugya

Dec 4 '20

My Hacktoberfest 2020 story

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #programming

1 min read

Dec 3 '20

The road to React-contexify v5

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

IJustDev

Dec 3 '20

The ultra secure chat

#discuss #opensource #go #security

4 min read

Vaibhav Dwivedi

Dec 3 '20

How To Start Contributing in Open Source with Learningin.tech

#opensource #programming #resources #learning

2 min read

Dec 3 '20

Onboarding Experience at Embark Studios 🦀

#opensource #onboarding #embark #gamedev

2 min read

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Dushusir

Dec 3 '20

The backend of the spreadsheet Luckysheet is also open source! Support online collaboration, one-click docker private deployment

#javascript #opensource #java #excel

2 min read

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Dec 3 '20

G6 4.0: More Progress for Easier Graph Visual Analysis

#opensource #javascript #typescript #visualization

12 min read

Shehzad

Oct 31 '20

Hacktoberfest Pull Request 4 done

#hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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Aravind Putrevu

Dec 2 '20

Three Interesting Apache Opensource Projects that you should take a look at!

#asf #opensource #cloud

2 min read

Erik Kroes

Dec 2 '20

Extending a component library and it’s documentation for speedy design system

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #opensource

6 min read

Supabase for Supabase

Dec 1 '20

Supabase: nine months of building.

#postgres #javascript #opensource #sql

2 min read

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Benjamin Cabé for Microsoft Azure

Dec 2 '20

Deploying a LoRaWAN network server on Azure

#iot #lorawan #lpwan #opensource

6 min read

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Dec 2 '20

Os benefícios de estudar o código fonte de grandes bibliotecas e aplicações

#opensource #ptbr #frontend

2 min read

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Jeffrey Boisvert

Dec 2 '20

My Experience Developing for a Non-Profit

#showdev #javascript #opensource #sideprojects

6 min read

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Oct 29 '20

My Hacktoberfest Story!!

#hacktoberfest #digitalocean #opensource

2 min read

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Adi Polak for Microsoft Azure

Dec 1 '20

Apache Spark and OSS Data Adventures [Create: Data]

#showdev #opensource #news

1 min read

Nov 1 '20

Privatisation of YOUR android phone: De-Google

#android #opensource

16 min read

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