Top 5: Ubuntu phone, Phonebloks, and Adafruit's open hardware

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Welcome to Opensource.com's Weekly Top 5!

This week we talk about Human Hacking at SCALE 13X, the open hardware phenomenon, DevOps culture, reducing smartphone waste, and the new Ubuntu phone. Plus, we've got a new column on the site!

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Top 5 articles of the week

#5. Oregon State University Open Source Lab hosts 160 projects

The South California Linux Expo is coming up next week! It's an annual open source event our staff and readers love, and this year's speaker line-up is top notch. So, prior to SCALE 13X we interviewed some of them to give you a glimpse into some of the conversations that will be going on at the conference. We have a collection of interviews on the site right now, and more coming next week. One of them is with Emily Durham who will give a talk called Human Hacking. Emily is currently finishing her final year in computer science at Oregon State University (OSU), where she is the student systems engineer at the OSU Open Source Lab.

#4. Open hardware helps businesses make products for cheap

Tinkers and makers around the world are singing the praises of open hardware. Why? Because as Limor Fried, founder and CEO of open hardware manufacturer Adafruit Technologies says in this article: "Open source hardware is the best way for the engineers of the future—and other engineer-curious people—to understand what’s going on under the hood of the devices that surround them. Check out this article for more from Fried on this phenomenon including how open hardware is keeping costs down while increasing effciency and mitigating risk.

#3. Without open source, there would be no DevOps

Magnus Hedemark talks open source and DevOps in this article that is part of our new Easy DevOps column. The big takeaway here is that successful adoption of DevOps requires a strong culture to support it, and Hedemark believes the best DevOps cultures have their roots in open source communities. Find out more about why in this thoughtful article on the subject.

#2. Open modular phone catches the eye of Google

Luis Ibanez interviews Dave Hakkens, the green thinker behind Phonebloks, an effort to reduce electronic waste (e-waste) through modular hardware for our smartphones. This technology will help us be able to pick and choose the components of a phone that might be most important to us, allowing us to also choose to not include parts we do not need. In this interview, Dave shares the story of what brought him to this mission and what he believes the future holds for one of our most treasured devices, our phones.

#1. What the Ubuntu phone could mean for open source

Jono Bacon debuts his new column on the site called Six Degrees. He tells us he plans to write about the power of open source, and if you're familiar with Jono you know to expect a great sense of humor while he talks about issues he feels are important to the growth and success of open source across the many different projects and people out there running them. Jono is formerly the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical, and he is now the Senior Director of Community at the XPRIZE Foundation.

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