March 2016: Top 10 and editor's picks

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With 1,055,061 page views, Opensource.com set a new record in March and blew away our previous record of 823,899 page views set in January. Thank you to our amazing community of readers, contributors, and moderators for helping us reach this huge new milestone.

Last month we also announced our first Open Source Yearbook download, a project we started working on in August 2015, and the response has been huge. In its first month, the yearbook PDF was downloaded 3,571 times. We're currently ironing out details for the print edition, so stay tuned for updates.

We published 98 articles in March, including 5 articles in our Diversity in Open Source series. We also launched a new column, Coffee Shop DevOps, by Jen Kreiger.

We welcomed 16 new authors, and our great group of community moderators contributed 31 articles (32% of our total content). Also in March, Opensource.com ranked #1 in Onalytica's Open Source: Top 100 Influencers and Brands list. Several of our editors, moderators, and writers also made the list, including: Chris Aniszczyk, Robin Muilwijk, Don Watkins, Jono Bacon, Jim Whitehurst, Phil Shapiro, Jason Hibbets, and Ben Nuttall.

In March, our Open Organization channel continued its conversation about the role open values are playing in the future of management and leadership. Our community especially enjoyed Bryan Behrenshausen's interview with the folks at Buffer, Jim Whitehurst's thoughts on the essence of open leadership, and Philip Foster's review of David Burkus' new book, Under New Management. The community also hosted its monthly #OpenOrgChat Twitter chat on March 17—see the recap if you missed it.

For a look at what's coming up this month, check out our April Preview.

March highlights

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Editor's Pick 6

Here are six of our many favorite articles from March:

Can we talk about ageism?—community moderator Deb Nicholson explains why we want to welcome contributors of all ages if we want free and open source software to truly take over the world.
6 essential non-coding careers in open source—Nithya Ruff, Head of SanDisk’s Open Source Strategy Office, rounds up a few popular and emerging roles in open source.
How to add open source experience to your resume—Mozilla DevOps engineer E. Dunham offers practical tips for adding open source experience to your resume.
4 open source tools for writing your next screenplay—community moderator Jason van Gumster explains how Celtx, Fountain, Trelby, and 'afterwriting can help you knock out that Oscar-winning screenplay you've been thinking about.
5 tips every open source project manager should consider—software engineer Safia Abdalla outlines suggestions for increasing diversity on open source project teams.
Image processing at NASA with open source tools—NASA Glenn Research Center Graphics and Virtualization Lab (GVIS) intern Lauren Egts tells us about the roles open source tools have in making image processing more robust at NASA.