July review: Top 10 and editor's picks

July was an action-packed month with a record 114 articles published and 641,103 page views. Our community moderators contributed 39 articles—a whopping 34% of our July content.

Highlights

We published 27 articles in our OSCON series, and 10 articles in our Open Science series.

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Editor's Pick 6

Here are a few articles you might have missed in July:

1. An open source mapping primer by Gordon Haff
2. How to win the copyleft fight—without litigation by Ben Cotton
3. Explore the night sky with Stellarium and Celestia by Don Watkins
4. 10 tips for better documentation by Nigel Babu
5. Eating our own dog food in open source by Jason van Gumster
6. Succeed in open source, change the world by Ruth Suehle

Top 10 articles published in July

1. This is why your open source project is failing by Nicole Engard (Community Moderator) | 20,844 page views
2. 5 open source alternatives to Google Docs by Tatiana Kochedykova | 10,457 page views
3. A look at what's on the horizon for LibreOffice by Don Watkins (Community Moderator) | 8,536 page views
4. How I finally got permission to use my own computer by Jay LaCroix | 7,475 page views
5. The real reason Facebook does open source by Nicole Engard (Community Moderator) | 6,537 page views
6. Why I code and don't get paid for it by Bob Mesibov | 6,361 page views
7. Out with the old code, in with the new by Anuva Ambastha (Red Hat) | 5,995 page views
8. Python and Raspberry Pi in education by Ben Nuttall (Monthly Columnist) | 5,444 page views
9. 5 open source tools for taming text by Grant Ingersoll | 5,396 page views
10. Linux's million lines of code, a new tiny computer, and more from Google and Microsoft by Scott Nesbitt (Community Moderator) | 3,997 page views