Highlights and Editor's Pick 6: December 2014 report

A new world record has been set and we've finally surpassed 500k page views in a month! We ended 2014 with a bang and December garnered 547,016 page views and 308,112 unique visits. We published 77 articles and had numerous posts highlighting our "best of" content from 2014.

Highlights

It was amazing to see 60% of the articles published were contributed from the open source community at-large.

Several articles were referenced by other publications. The open gaming review Open source and Linux in 2014 was picked up by IT World, and an article on open data Does Open Data Demand an API-first Approach? was covered on Programmable Web.

Top 10 open source projects of 2014, which featured eight cloud-related projects (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenStack, Ansible, ownCloud, Hadoop, and OpenDaylight) was a huge hit, generating almost 20,000 hits. Overall, all cloud-related topics on Opensource.com brought 90,682 page views to the site, by far a new record.

For the twelfth month in a row, the top article was Top 5 open source project management tools in 2014, written by one of our Community Moderators. This article continues to get steady search traffic and was the most visited page on the site with more than 34,000 page views.

Our community moderators contributed 26 articles this month (34% of our published content), had 5 posts in the overall top 10, and produced lots of great social media support and syndication efforts. We added a new moderator, Don Watkins, and we now have 13 Community Moderators in the program.

Editor's Pick 6

There was a lot of competition this month for the top spots and a few barely missed those lists. But never fear, I've gone through and selected six articles that are must reads if you missed them the first time around.

1. Community moderator Luis Ibanez provides a review of the best of open hardware in 2014.
2. Uri Cohen leads the product team at GigaSpaces and talks about containers, microservices, and orchestrating.
3. Open source beer? Yes please! Check out this interview with Tin Whiskers Brewery.
4. Editor Jen Wike asks if we need programming skills to learn Linux after wrapping up the EdX Linux course.
5. Olivier Thierry from Zimbra talks about the advantages of open source software's in privacy and security.
6. Community Moderator Robin Muilwijk let's us know what the top open source news of the year was, good for trivia in 2015.

Top 10 articles published in December

1. Top 10 open source projects of 2014 by Jen Wike Huger (Red Hat) | 19,180 (page views)
2. Using ownCloud to integrate Dropbox, Google Drive, and more in Gnome by Jiri Folta (Red Hat) | 13,198 (page views)
3. Tinkering with the Raspberry Pi A+ by Luis Ibanez (Community Moderator) | 11,003 (page views)
4. The impact of the Linux philosophy by David Both | 10,591 (page views)
5. GPLv2 goes to court: More decisions from the Versata tarpit by Mark Radcliffe | 9,048 (page views)
6. 8 ways to contribute to open source without writing code by Tobias Pfeiffer | 7,182 (page views)
7. Best open source tutorials of 2014 by Scott Nesbitt (Community Moderator) | 7,131 (page views)
8. Making your IT infrastructure boring with Ansible by Opensource.com (Red Hat) | 6,601 (page views)
9. OpenMotics improves home automation by Frederick Ryckbosch | 6,393 (page views)
10. Install Linux on a used laptop by Phil Shapiro (Community Moderator) | 6,320 (page views)

Top 10 articles overall in December 2014

1. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2014 by Robin Muilwijk (Community Moderator) | 33,814 (page views)
2. Top 10 open source projects of 2014 by Jen Wike Huger (Red Hat) | 19,180 (page views)
3. Using ownCloud to integrate Dropbox, Google Drive, and more in Gnome by Jiri Folta (Red Hat) | 13,198 (page views)
4. 14 fabulous open source gifts for the holidays by Opensource.com (Red Hat) | 11,447 (page views)
5. Tinkering with the Raspberry Pi A+ by Luis Ibanez (Community Moderator) | 11,003 (page views)
6. The impact of the Linux philosophy by David Both | 10,591 (page views)
7. Top 3 open source business intelligence and reporting tools by Robin Muilwijk (Community Moderator) | 10,342 (page views)
8. GPLv2 goes to court: More decisions from the Versata tarpit by Mark Radcliffe | 9,048 (page views)
9. Raspberry Pi and Coder by Google for beginners and kids by Luis Ibanez (Community Moderator) | 8,257 (page views)
10. Top 5 open source customer relationship management tools by Scott Nesbitt (Community Moderator) | 7,883 (page views)

Stats

• Opensource.com homepage: 31,057 page views (last month: 26,067 page views)
• What is open source? resource page: 16,751 page views (last month: 19,265 page views)
• What is OpenStack? resource page: 8,337 page views (last month: 9,413 page views)
• Articles published: 77

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