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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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Oct 6 '20

Is commercial support a viable way to open-source sustainability?

#node #opensource #javascript #kafka

3 min read

Puru

Oct 6 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: My journey as a maintainer

#hacktoberfest #opensource #journey #developer

2 min read

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Oct 6 '20

GoogletransX update!

#showdev #go #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Arpit Mohan for Appsmith

Oct 6 '20

Appsmith Hacktoberfest Week 1 Update

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Yoginth for Taskord

Oct 6 '20

Taskord Changelog - Oct 6

#showdev #opensource #productivity #changelog

1 min read

Ricardo Sueiras for AWS

Oct 5 '20

AWS open source news and updates No. 38

#aws #opensource

20 min read

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Ax Sharma for Sonatype

Sep 3 '20

A peek inside the “fallguys” malware that steals your browsing data and gaming IMs

#malware #opensource #security #hacking

5 min read

T.J. Telan

Oct 6 '20

A first-timer's perspective to Digital Ocean's Hacktoberfest 2020

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #rust

6 min read

Thanh Tien Phat Nguyen

Oct 6 '20

Chin up after each pull request you make!

#javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Oct 5 '20

Hacktoberfest: 4 motivos para contribuir com código aberto

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners #github

2 min read

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Oct 5 '20

Hacktoberfest - the collaborators side

#hacktoberfest #opensource #contributorswanted

2 min read

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dev.to staff for The DEV Team

Sep 24 '20

Who's participating in Hacktoberfest 2020?

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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Ilya Lesik for brainhub

Oct 5 '20

Our open-source in Hacktoberfest 2020

#hacktoberfest #react #opensource

3 min read

Oct 5 '20

Release 0.2.2 or, Standing on the Shoulders of a small project

#opensource #python #github #javascript

3 min read

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Jayesh Tembhekar ⚡

Oct 5 '20

Annnd., completed ! 🤩

#discuss #hacktoberfest #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Sep 24 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: Registration Now Open 🎃

#opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Floor Drees for For Devs community

Oct 5 '20

CONTRIBUTING: better Docs, with Carolyn Stransky

#hacktoberfest #opensourceoctober #opensource #alexjs

4 min read

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Oct 4 '20

J.A.R.V.I.S v2.0 is Released!! | Come and Contribute | HacktoberFest 2020

#hacktoberfest #github #opensource #python

2 min read

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Oct 5 '20

Developer Digital Meetup Tour... and more!!

#meetup #api #microservices #opensource

3 min read

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Oct 5 '20

Distributed Applications: Building More Completely with the Right Tools

#blockchain #opensource #smartcontracts #distributedsystems

3 min read

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Oct 5 '20

Odoo Rental Management System

#odoo #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Cover image for The story of how I (kinda') fixed AWS Kinesis Producers, helped a student, and saved humanity hundreds of man-hours!

Oct 5 '20

The story of how I (kinda') fixed AWS Kinesis Producers, helped a student, and saved humanity hundreds of man-hours!

#webdev #opensource #aws #devops

7 min read

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Oct 5 '20

Adding badges to your open source project in 2 seconds

#opensource #github #productivity

2 min read

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Oct 5 '20

Offen goes Hacktoberfest

#watercooler #hacktoberfest #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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John Lafleur for Airbyte

Oct 5 '20

Why You Should Consider a Soft Launch

#startup #opensource

4 min read

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