Highlights and editor's picks: June 2015 report

Opensource.com closed out May with 623,688 page views. We published 90 articles including five posts for our Open Hardware series, six for our OpenStack Summit interview series, and six for our DrupalCon interview series.

Highlights

In May, 53% of the content published on the site was contributed by members of the open source community. Also, we had 33 new authors and 19 previous writers (staff included). Our Community Moderators contributed 19 articles last month (21% of our published content), and gave us lots of support on social media and with syndication efforts. On June 1, we welcomed Aleksandar Todorović, author of A beginner's guide to GitHub, to the Community Moderators program.

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Share your story and see our 2015 editorial calendar for writing opportunities. Do you have a Raspberry Pi or Arduino project to share? Send us your open source project success stories. We have two new columns: Share documentation best practices for the Doc Dish column, or share your story about how you got started with Linux for the My Linux Story column. We're always looking for contributors to our recurring columns, such as Apache projects, DevOps, open hardware, Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS), content management systems, and more. If you're a first-time writer, don't worry—our editors will help you through the writing and editing process.

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Editor's Pick 6

Here are a few articles you might have missed in May:

1. We launched a new section on Opensource.com called The Open Organization, and a new resource page, What is The Open Organization?.
2. Calling all data geeks and enthusiasts—testing is now open for DocHive, an open source Ruby on Rails project for capturing data from image-based PDFs. A recent article by Edward Brian Duncan explains how to get started with DocHive testing.
3. Time Warner Cable is going big with OpenStack. Find out how in our interview with Matt Haines, Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations for Time Warner Cable.
4. Alex Sanchez rounds up 21 open hardware enthusiasts to follow on Twitter
5. An article by Seth Knuth explains 3 ways to measure performance in an open organization.
6. Elizabeth K. Joseph works on the OpenStack Infrastructure team and explains the benefits of building an open infrastructure.

Top 10 articles (ranked in May, published all time)

1. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2014 by Robin Muilwijk (Community Moderator) | 28,634 page views
2. The current state of video editing for Linux by Chris Long (Red Hat) | 24,705 page views
3. RTFM? How to write a manual worth reading by Rich Bowen (Red Hat) | 18,668 page views
4. Should I get an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi? by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat) | 18,045 page views
5. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2015 by Robin Muilwijk (Community Moderator) | 16,748 page views
6. Top 3 open source business intelligence and reporting tools by Robin Muilwijk (Community Moderator) | 10,958 page views
7. 5 must-watch Docker videos by Jason Baker (Red Hat) | 10,361 page views
8. Top 5 open source customer relationship management tools by Scott Nesbitt (Community Moderator) | 9,174 page views
9. Practical Python programming for non-engineers by Al Sweigart (new author) | 8,474 page views
10. Why tools like Docker, Vagrant, and Ansible are hotter than ever by Greg DeKoenigsberg | 6,424 page views

Top 10 articles (ranked and published in May)

1. RTFM? How to write a manual worth reading by Rich Bowen (Red Hat) | 18,668 page views
2. Should I get an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi? by Ruth Suehle (Red Hat) | 18,045 page views
3. 5 must-watch Docker videos by Jason Baker (Red Hat) | 10,361 page views
4. Practical Python programming for non-engineers by Al Sweigart | 8,474 page views
5. Why tools like Docker, Vagrant, and Ansible are hotter than ever by Greg DeKoenigsberg | 6,424 page views
6. Getting started with Minecraft Pi by Ben Nuttall | 6,031 page views
7. 3 big lessons I learned from running an open source company by Grant Ingersoll | 4,859 page views
8. A tinkerer's tool for PCB design and printing by Heiko W. Rupp | 3,562 page views
9. OpenStreetMap responds in Nepal by Andrew Wiseman & Pierre Béland | 3,386 page views
10. Open source has to be more than Linux by Jono Bacon | 3,124 page views