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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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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Oct 25 '18

The Minimum Viable Pull-request

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest

4 min read

Oct 21 '18

How to Get the Git Directory

#ruby #git #github #opensource

1 min read

//va

Feb 19 '19

Bring Machine Learning to the Browser with TensorFlow.js — Part I

#tensorflow #javascript #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

Mac Siri

Oct 19 '18

How to best organize a Rails app folder?

#discuss #rails #meta #opensource

1 min read

Oct 19 '18

Have you used the new "suggested changes" in GitHub pull requests?

#discuss #github #opensource

1 min read

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Pranith Hengavalli

Oct 19 '18

Designing A Voting System For 1 Billion on the Blockchain (Part 2) - How To Keep A Secret

#discuss #blockchain #opensource #architecture

4 min read

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Swapnil Agarwal

Oct 22 '18

🌧️ devSwag #6 — #Swagtoberfest is in Full Swing

#programming #beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest

2 min read

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Ricardo N Feliciano

Oct 24 '18

Would a Nonprofit Twitter Clone Work?

#twitter #nonprofit #foss #opensource

2 min read

Aaron Schlesinger

Oct 26 '18

Absolutely Everybody is Welcome

#go #opensource #community

2 min read

Oct 23 '18

State machine controller for Unity

#gamedev #csharp #unity3d #opensource

2 min read

Olimpio

Oct 26 '18

English to Portuguese Translation

#discuss #hacktoberfest #opensource

1 min read

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Wajahat Karim 🇵🇰

Oct 23 '18

Podcast — What’s Open Source? And What’s Hacktoberfest?

#opensource #podcast #github #hacktoberfest

3 min read

Jedidiah Weller 👑 for OpenForge

Oct 24 '18

Tutorial 1,000 - A Real Production App

#angular #javascript #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Oct 15 '18

Who's looking for open source contributors? (October 15th edition)

#discuss #opensource #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Shan Khan

Oct 23 '18

Settings Sync Paid Issues - Fix & Earn - Oct 2018

#opensource #bounty #vscode #contributorswanted

1 min read

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Oct 22 '18

Module Monday 18: Flex gallery, Quote cards, Nav + sidenav & more

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

2 min read

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Oct 14 '18

Should the Quality of GitHub Projects Be Evaluated by Their Star Count?

#opensource #github

2 min read

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Oct 18 '18

How to send AWS CloudWatch Alarms to Slack

#beginners #devops #opensource #howto

4 min read

Oct 15 '18

How Do You Keep Track of Awesome Resources?

#hacktoberfest #awesomelists #opensource

2 min read

Thomas Leathers

Oct 19 '18

Whats the most obscure open source project you've worked on?

#discuss #opensource

1 min read

Shobi

Oct 18 '18

I have created a chrome extension to paste random data to form fields 🎷🥁

#chromeextension #typescript #opensource

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Oct 16 '18

Blog post: A Little Hacktoberfest Fairytale

#rust #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

Alexander Omorokunwa

Feb 26 '19

How to Install Fortran Compiler in Linux

#howto #linux #opensource #fortrancompiler

1 min read

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Marina Pilipenko for actiTIME Inc

Oct 18 '18

8 Free Project Management Software for Small Teams

#projectmanagement #freetools #opensource

3 min read

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Thea

Oct 13 '18

The beginner's guide to contributing to projects with GitHub Desktop

#opensource #github #beginners #hacktoberfest

3 min read

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