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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 5 '20

Merging Makes the Spice Flow

#opensource #python #github #git

3 min read

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X-Cyborg

Oct 4 '20

MY FIRST HACKTOBER-FEST

#github #opensource #hacktoberfest2020 #hacknight

2 min read

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Manuel Castellin

Oct 1 '20

Hacktoberfest - Ideas for Contributing as a Beginner

#hacktoberfest #beginners #github #opensource

4 min read

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Banji

Oct 2 '20

GitLab has Blocked Iran!

#discuss #webdev #opensource #github

1 min read

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Oct 3 '20

Set Yourself Up For Success During Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github

5 min read

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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Sep 23 '20

GitHub Actions Hackathon Winners, Announced!

#showdev #actionshackathon #opensource

3 min read

Thew

Oct 1 '20

DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

1 min read

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Amanda Fawcett for Educative

Oct 2 '20

How to use an API: fetch daily images with NASA's Open API

#api #python #opensource #webdev

12 min read

Oct 3 '20

Refactoring Verify-URL

#watercooler #opensource #python

1 min read

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Taiwrash

Sep 30 '20

Simple and Easy Open Source Project for Contributors to contribute during HACKTOBERFEST - DEV-RESUME as Case study

#opensource #hacktoberfest #javascript #beginners

2 min read

LucasAlt

Oct 3 '20

SpookyBot, an open source Discord bot

#hacktoberfest #javascript #opensource #beginners

1 min read

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Oct 3 '20

Why are any hardwares and softwares fail to provide more than a few years of support (or even usability)?

#discuss #opensource #linux

1 min read

Oct 3 '20

Looking to remove duplicated code? Try codesim

#showdev #python #opensource

1 min read

Oct 3 '20

Please Notimate @rutujak24 as a Github Star

#github #opensource

1 min read

Tomas Norre Mikkelsen

Sep 29 '20

Hacktoberfest - Random Issue Picker

#hacktoberfest #random #development #opensource

1 min read

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Zoltán Szőgyényi for Themesberg

Oct 2 '20

What is Tailwind CSS?

#tailwindcss #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

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Oct 2 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020 Beginner's Guide

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #beginners

1 min read

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Oct 2 '20

Make Your First Open Source Contribution

#opensource #codenewbie #webdev #javascript

1 min read

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Oct 2 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020: Registration Now Open

#opensource #hacktoberfest #contribute

1 min read

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Paras Daryanani

Oct 2 '20

8 Reasons to Build a Website with DNN Platform in 2020

#dotnetnuke #dnncms #dotnet #opensource

3 min read

Ember.js

Oct 1 '20

Hacktoberfest 2020

#ember #javascript #hacktoberfest #opensource

3 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Prithvi for LitmusChaos

Sep 29 '20

Celebrate Hacktoberfest 2020 with LitmusChaos

#hacktoberfest #litmuschaos #opensource #kubernetes

3 min read

Oct 2 '20

Release 0.2.1 or, How Hacktoberfest Ruins Everything. Me too. Probably.

#opensource #javascript #node #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Michelle Duke for GitHub

Oct 1 '20

Using GitHub Project board for Hacktoberfest contributions

#hacktoberfest #github #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Oct 1 '20

Open Source Projects Thread

#hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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