Highlights and editor's picks: May 2015 report

Opensource.com closed out the month of April with a total of 612,553 page views and set a new page views per day record of 20,418. Also, our team published 79 articles including 14 posts in our ApacheCon, OpenStack Live, and POSSCON speaker interview series.

Highlights

We had 70% of the content published on the site come from the open source community, continuing our trend of more than 60% of our contributions from the community for the sixth month in a row. We had 22 new authors and 30 previous contributors (staff included) in April. Our community moderators contributed 17 articles last month (22% of our published content), and gave us lots of social media help. As of May 1, we now have 13 moderators in our Community Moderators program. New moderator David Both has written several great articles for us, including the top two new articles in April, so we're thrilled to have him onboard.

Get involved

Share your story and see our 2015 editorial calendar for writing opportunities. 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. Do you have a Raspberry Pi or Arduino project to share? Or tell us about your favorite open source productivity tool, share your project success stories, or round up a few documentation best practices. Don't worry if your prose isn't perfect—we'll polish it for you.

Are you organizing an open source conference or event? Be sure to add it to our community calendar.

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Editor's Pick 6

Here are a few April articles you might have missed:

1. Learn about the role open source plays in producing and balancing energy in our article about PowerMatcherSuite.
2. Find out about 4 new tools for scholarly research: Twine 2.0, Omeka 2.3, Neatline, and Textures.js.
3. Here's a handy how-to for using git and GitHub for open source documentation.
4. In his community column, Jono Bacon explains why the makerspace is the next open source frontier.
5. Ben Nuttall explains how students are competing for a chance to have their Raspberry Pi code run in space in his first Raspberry Pi monthly column installment. 
   
6. Would you like to get involved with the Open Source Hardware Association? A board member explains how.

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

1. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2014 by Robin Muilwijk (Community moderator) | 31,399 page views
2. The current state of video editing for Linux by Chris Long (Red Hat) | 22,068 page views
3. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2015 by Robin Muilwijk (Community moderator) | 16,725 page views
4. Top 3 open source business intelligence and reporting tools by Robin Muilwijk (Community moderator) | 14,330 page views
5. 9 reasons to use KDE by David Both (Community moderator as of May 1) | 12,217 page views
6. Top 5 open source customer relationship management tools by Scott Nesbitt (Community moderator) | 10,973 page views
7. 8 Linux file managers to try by David Both (Community moderator as of May 1) | 10,040 page views
8. Has the time come to kill the password? by Scott Nesbitt (Community moderator) | 6,792 page views
9. Michigan Tech course to build your own 3D printer by Joshua Pearce | 6,520 page views
10. The Blender Institute's sixth open film project by Elysia Brenner | 4,565 page views

Top 10 articles (ranked and published in April)

1. 9 reasons to use KDE by David Both (new community moderator) | 12,217 page views
2. 8 Linux file managers to try by David Both (new community moderator) | 10,040 page views
3. Has the time come to kill the password? by Scott Nesbitt (community moderator) | 6,792 page views
4. The Blender Institute's sixth open film project by Elysia Brenner | 4,565 page views
5. Modern DevOps with Docker by Rikki Endsley (Red Hat) | 4,125 page views
6. 5 DIY hardware platforms for physiological computing by Hugo Silva | 4,104 page views
7. Sourcegraph: A free code search tool for open source developers by Charles Vickery | 3,920 page views
8. Busting 6 myths about DevOps by Gene Kim | 3,504 page views
9. 6 reasons people with disabilities should use Linux by Spencer Hunley | 2,949 page views
10. An open source, e-commerce friendly CMS by Borislav Iordanov | 2,834 page views