Highlights and editor's picks: February 2015 report

A new world record has been set for our community. We started 2015 with our momentum from December and garnered 596,721 page views (old record: 547,016) and 335,290 unique visits. We published 78 articles including eight posts during our Careers in Open Source week.

Highlights

62% of the content published on the site came from the open source community, continuing our trend of over 60% of our contributions from the community for the third month in a row. We had 20 new authors and 18 previous contributors (staff included).

Our What is open source? page maintained the #1 position in organic search results and generated 21,954 page views, the highest viewed month ever.

For the thirteenth month in a row, the top article was Top 5 open source project management tools in 2014, written by one of our community moderators. It continues to get steady search traffic and was the most visited page on the site with more than 42,000 page views. We published a new version for the top open source project management tools in 2015 that brought in almost 13,000 views.

Our Community Moderators contributed 22 articles this month (28% of our published content) as well as lots of great social media support and syndication efforts. We have 13 Community Moderators in the program.

Get involved

Share your story and see our 2015 editorial calendar for writing opportunities—including ways to contribute to recurring columns (like Apache projects, DevOps, open hardware, Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS), content management, and more) and themes (like, Beginners to Open Source, Open Source in Education, speaker interview series, and more). You never know, your project or open source contribution could be in next month's top ten list!

Editor's Pick 6

While our monthly theme was focused on careers in open source, there were a lot of other fresh perspectives from the open source community to help kick off the new year. I've gone through and selected six articles from January that you don't want to miss.

1. CEO of Docker, Ben Golub, tells us about power of Docker and open source ecosystems. Also, be sure to check out our new introduction to Docker resource.
2. Tarus Balog shares some advice for our Careers in Open Source week. He helps to answer the question is your next job in open source?
3. Mark Radcliffe, a senior partner at DLA Piper, covers the top 10 FOSS legal developments from 2014, which includes highlights from court interpretations of the GPLv2.
4. After the holiday break, Brian Proffitt, Community Liaison for the oVirt project, helps us tackle the tough issue of explaining open source to the in-laws. What's your best go at explaining your passion for open source to a non-techie?
5. Open source invades the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Alex Sanchez from Opensource.com takes a look at 5 consumer electronics gadgets from the 48th annual CES.
6. Community Moderator Scott Nesbitt shows us how to create a daily reading list using Calibre. Go ahead and start yours today!

Top 10 articles published in January 2015

1. The current state of video editing for Linux by Chris Long (Red Hat) | 19,957 page views
2. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2015 by Robin Muilwijk (Community moderator) | 12,515 page views
3. World record set for 100 TB sort by open source and public cloud team by Reynold Xin | 10,924 page views
4. 5 favorite Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects by Frank Thomas-Hockey | 9,467 page views
5. Why now is the time to learn R by David Smith | 7,158 page views
6. What is your favorite Linux distribution? by Opensource.com (Red Hat) | 6,886 page views
7. Going open source on Android with F-Droid by Scott Nesbitt (Community moderator) | 6,565 page views
8. The building blocks of a distribution with Linux from Scratch by Joshua Allen Holm (Community moderator) | 4,698 page views
9. 6 new things Fedora 21 brings to the open source cloud by Jason Baker (Red Hat) | 4,560 page views
10. 10 entry points to tech (for girls, women, and everyone) by Elizabeth K. Joseph | 4,158 page views

Top 10 articles overall in January 2015

1. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2014 by Robin Muilwijk (Community moderator) | 41,848 page views
2. The current state of video editing for Linux by Chris Long (Red Hat) | 19,957 page views
3. Top 3 open source business intelligence and reporting tools by Robin Muilwijk (Community moderator) | 13,244 page views
4. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2015 by Robin Muilwijk (Community moderator) | 12,515 page views
5. World record set for 100 TB sort by open source and public cloud team by Reynold Xin | 10,924 page views
6. Top 5 open source customer relationship management tools by Scott Nesbitt (Community moderator) | 10,512 page views
7. 5 favorite Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects by Frank Thomas-Hockey | 9,467 page views
8. Top 10 open source projects of 2014 by Jen Wike Huger (Red Hat) | 9,091 page views
9. Why now is the time to learn R by David Smith | 7,158 page views
10. What is your favorite Linux distribution? by Opensource.com (Red Hat) | 6,886 page views

Stats

• Opensource.com homepage: 37,452 page views (last month: 31,057 page views)
• What is open source? resource page: 21,954 page views (last month: 16,751 page views)
• What is OpenStack? resource page: 9,802 page views (last month: 8,337 page views)
• Articles published: 78

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