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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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Nov 2 '20

The Month of October 2020

#opensource

2 min read

Oct 30 '20

I Just learnt Python, which open source project can I start to contribute?

#beginners #opensource #python #github

1 min read

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Narasimha Prasanna HN

Nov 1 '20

Selecting the best open-source library/framework for your next project.

#github #tutorial #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Romain Lespinasse

Nov 1 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: drawio-cli and drawio-export Maintainer

#hacktoberfest #maintainer #opensource #drawio

1 min read

Romain Lespinasse

Nov 1 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: github-slug-action Maintainer

#hacktoberfest #maintainer #opensource #githubaction

2 min read

Fridolín Pokorný

Nov 1 '20

How to beat Python’s pip: Dependency Monkey inspecting the quality of TensorFlow dependencies

#python #datascience #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

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Tharindu Lakshitha

Nov 1 '20

How I completed Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #digitalocean

4 min read

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Nov 1 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 - a retrospective

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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epassaro

Oct 29 '20

Fix suspend issues on Dell 7405 2-in-1

#linux #opensource

4 min read

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Jocelyn (she/her)

Nov 1 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: PRs and Game Dev Galore

#hacktoberfest #gamedev #opensource #github

3 min read

Nov 1 '20

How to deploy your Jekyll Website on Github pages

#github #git #opensource #ruby

2 min read

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manish srivastava

Nov 11 '20

Introducing Xtra-Power CSS: Device Size No more a Challenge!!!

#showdev #css #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Nov 1 '20

5 Benefits of Using Open Source Intelligence

#opensource #soft #datascience

1 min read

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Dashminder Singh

Oct 31 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 challenge completed!

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource

1 min read

Sep 27 '20

Well. Episode 0.1 done. 0.2 starts this week.

#opensource

2 min read

Gavin

Oct 30 '20

Compensating open source developers via GitHub Sponsors. Good or bad?

#discuss #watercooler #opensource #sponsors

1 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Jan 2 '21

HOW TO INSTALL AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR IN LINUX

#opensource #howto #linux

2 min read

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Brian Douglas for GitHub

Oct 30 '20

The Command-line utility for building React got an update - Create React App 4 is released

#react #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Oct 31 '20

How to install Jekyll on your local machine

#opensource #webdev #ruby #github

2 min read

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Oct 1 '20

Hacktoberfest Kickoff Event

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 26 '20

Final week of Hacktoberfest!

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Muhammet Kara for Collabora Online

Oct 30 '20

Collabora Online Community Roundup #3

#opensource #github #libreoffice #cloud

11 min read

Oct 30 '20

How to deploy your local project on github using git

#github #git #opensource

2 min read

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NIKHILMISHRA-198

Oct 30 '20

HACKTOBER FEST 2020

#hacktoberfest #firstyearincode #opensource #github

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Floor Drees for For Devs community

Oct 30 '20

CONTRIBUTING: Eddie Jaoude

#hacktoberfest #opensource #opensourceoctober

5 min read

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