Welcome to another edition of the Opensource.com weekly Top 5!
First, a few notes.
- Cannonball cat joins the video!
- CityCamp NC starts today.
- Read more about open source and open data in government in our collection this week.
Top 5 articles of the week
#5. Indian government includes open source in RFPs
Subhashish Panigrahi explains more about the new Indian government policy that will "adopt open standards and promote open source and open technologies."
#4. Open education at the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Ben Nuttall tells us what open education looks like at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, including Hour of Code, Parsedown, and Creative Commons.
#3. Why the Ubuntu developer portal moved to DjangoCMS
Hear the story of why an Ubuntu developer team moved their portal to the open source content management system, DjangoCMS, from Michael Hall. Think: a balance of simplicity, flexibility, and power.
#2. 8 excellent open source data visualization tools
Nitish Tiwari shares the project page, source code, and license for 8 open source data visualization tools, including details on how they work and the kind of user they are best suited for.
#1. Welcome to America: Here's your Linux computer
Phil Shaprio shares how he relates to the experience of immigranting to the US, because he did too, once. Seeing that same uncertainty in the eyes of young kids new to America at the library where he works and shares open source and Linux with patrons, Phil decided to give them the one treasure he knows best: a Linux computer. Read more about this touching story.
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