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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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Nischal Jain for Collectiv AI

Oct 4

Hacktoberfest 2023 - How AI can create an impact on Open Source Contributions

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #ai

3 min read

Sm0ke

Oct 4

Tailwind & Django - Free Starter

#tailwindcss #django #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Savvas Stephanides

Oct 4

5 common terms used in Open Source, explained.

#hacktoberfest #opensource #github #git

3 min read

Leonardo Montini for This is Learning

Oct 4

Give credit to Open Source Contributors

#opensource #github #hacktoberfest23

2 min read

Tim

Oct 4

How to add an Open-Source payments plugin to your WooCommerce store

#opensource #woocommerce #wordpress #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Saurav Jain for Amplication

Oct 4

Celebrating Hacktoberfest 2023 with Amplication

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #node

3 min read

Maciej

Oct 3

Tailwind Elements Stable v1.0.0. - a free, open-source UI Kit with 500+ components integrated with Angular - is out.

#angular #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Abhay

Oct 2

Hacktoberfest 2023 Pledge

#hack23contributor #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

1 min read

Oct 2

My Pledge For Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource

1 min read

flo merian for crowd.dev

Oct 2

Who's hiring developer advocates? (October 2023)

#opensource #devrel #career #hacktoberfest23

2 min read

Jeffrey Ip for Confident AI

Oct 3

The one thing everyone's doing wrong with ChatGPT... 🤫🤔

#beginners #programming #opensource #tutorial

9 min read

Oct 2

🖼️ Unleash graph visualization power to take full control over your project with skott

#webdev #opensource #typescript #visualization

4 min read

Parth

Oct 3

Hacktoberfest 2023: Celebrating Open Source Collaboration and Innovation

#hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest23 #opensource #githubhack23

3 min read

Oct 3

Hacktoberfest 2023 Pledge

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #beginners #github

1 min read

Oct 3

The cost of false positives in software security, Part 2: Large applications

#buildinpublic #opensource #cybersecurity #security

4 min read

Francesco Sardone

Oct 2

No More Problems With GitHub Issues

#github #opensource #tutorial #beginners

4 min read

Bobur Umurzokov for Apache APISIX

Oct 1

Adapting API Strategies to Dynamic AI Trend

#ai #api #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Alex

Oct 2

Unlocking Git's Hidden Powers: 5 Configuration Tips

#git #config #hacktoberfest23 #opensource

3 min read

BekahHW for OpenSauced

Oct 3

How to be a Top Contributor this Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest #opensource #career

3 min read

zvone187

Oct 3

GPT Pilot - a dev tool that writes 95% of coding tasks [Part 2/3 - Coding Workflow]

#programming #ai #productivity #opensource

10 min read

Dmitry Shatokhin

Oct 2

When changes are too expensive: JavaScript and data change performance.

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

Everkers

Oct 1

Taming Async Operations in React with use-async-stateful

#webdev #react #programming #opensource

2 min read

SAIFULLAH🇮🇳

Sep 30

All about Hactoberfest'23

#hacktoberfest23 #opensource #contributorswanted #developers

2 min read