Top 5 articles of the week: Raspberry Pi + Minecraft, lessons from Willie Nelson, and more

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Top 5 articles of the week on Opensource.com

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This week I talk about our best articles from May 4 - 8, 2015 on Opensource.com.

Topics include: Open source content management, lessons for developers from Willie Nelson, Linux for the visually impaired, the state of Drupal security, and Raspberry Pi + Minecraft.

Top 5 articles of the week

#5. Get ready for Wagtail, the best Django CMS yet

Frank Wiles brings us a all-around look at the open source content management system, Wagtail—from features to admin interface to images to pages and customization. Frank is President and Founder of Revolution Systems a Open Source consultancy specializing in performant and large scale Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and related web infrastructure.

#4. 8 ways developers can be more like Willie Nelson

Rikki Endsley, the new community manager for Opensource.com, delights readers with her interpretation of Willie Nelson's career for developers. She says, "If you're not a rock star developer, good for you. Shoot for being average, or try to be more like Willie, who said, 'I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.'" This article is chock-full of learning lessons and nuggets from the music career and life of Willie Nelson, plus some great videos.

#3. Accessibility in Linux is good (but could be much better)

Kendell Clark is an open source advocate and Fedora user who pens this article on the advantages a blind person has in using Gnu/Linux distributions over proprietary ones. He speaks from experience, and discusses areas in Linux that could also use some improvement for those with disabilities.

#2. The current state of Drupal security

DrupalCon 2015 is being held in Los Angeles from May 11 to 15 this year, and Opensource.com is running a series of interviews with some of the upcoming speakers at the event. This interview with Greg Knaddison, director of Engineering at CARD.com and a Drupal Association advisory board member, and Michael Hess, current Drupal Security Team leader, makes the top 5 this week. Andy Thornton, a senior software engineer at Red Hat, talks with them about managing security advisories from external libraries, plans for automated security updates, code reviews, what to expect in Drupal 8, and advice for new contributors to Drupal.

#1. Getting started with Minecraft Pi

This free Raspberry Pi version of Minecraft comes with a programmable interface that allows players to write code and manipulate the world around them. It's based on Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android, has a Python API, and is bundled with Raspbian. Minecraft Pi can also be used to teach programming skills. The author, Ben Nuttall is the education developer advocate for the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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