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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.

submission guidelines

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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fmerian for crowd.dev

Oct 12 '23

Supporting open-source projects on Product Hunt

#showdev #opensource #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23

2 min read

ksawery297

Oct 14 '23

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#javascript #opensource #tutorial #node

1 min read

Eduard Constantin

Oct 15 '23

My Hacktoberfest 2023 Experience

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #github

3 min read

Oct 14 '23

Hacktoberfest PR 4

#opensource #react #webdev #javascript

5 min read

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Amnish Singh Arora

Oct 14 '23

From Chaos to Clarity: The Power of Git Rebase

#git #opensource #github #refactorit

6 min read

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Yousef

Oct 14 '23

Hacktoberfest: Week 2

#hacktoberfest #podcast #documentation #opensource

4 min read

Yousef

Oct 14 '23

Git Rebase: Learn2Blog Refactor

#opensource #csharp #git #refactorit

5 min read

Oct 14 '23

Mastering Data Modeling in PostgreSQL

#postgres #database #opensource #apacheage

2 min read

Sebastian Wessel for PURISTA

Sep 11 '23

PURISTA - Thanks to amazing open-source software

#typescript #programming #opensource #coding

2 min read

Shelender Kumar 🇵🇰

Sep 24 '23

Harnessing the Power of Apache AGE: Integrating Graph Databases with Business Intelligence Tools

#apache #age #database #opensource

3 min read

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Leonardo Montini for Playful Programming

Oct 12 '23

Contributing to HUGE Open Source Projects

#opensource #github #codenewbie #tutorial

5 min read

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Muhammad Talha Khan

Oct 14 '23

I got a tree from HacktoberFest 😍👾

#opensource #productivity #contribution

1 min read

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Olasunkanmi Balogun for Formbricks

Oct 13 '23

📊🔍Measure Your Product-Market Fit With Formbricks' In-App Product-Market Fit Survey 📏📈

#opensource #webdev #product

7 min read

Oct 14 '23

Milvus Adventures | October 13, 2023

#opensource #vectordatabase #python #machinelearning

3 min read

Katie Liu

Oct 13 '23

Hacktoberfest Week 1 PR

#opensource #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #hack23contributor

3 min read

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