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Top 5 articles of the week: February 2 - 6

#5. Winners of the Opensource.com 2015 Community Awards

https://opensource.com/community/15/1/winners-2015-community-awards

Every year, Opensource.com awards contributors from our community who have excelled in writing and sharing stories about open source. Open source in technology is one area that our stories frequently focus on, but we also share tales of people around the world who are pushing and working for open education, open access, open data, open government, and more. Check out our awards winners article in these six categories:

People's Choice Awards: recognizes the community's favorite contributors from 2014. Voted on by the community.

Reader's Choice Awards: recognizes the community's favorite articles from 2014. Voted on by the community.

Best Interview Awards: recognizes the community's favorite interviews from 2014. Voted on by the community.

Moderator's Choice Award: recognizes a member who has made a big difference in the community. Voted on by the Community Moderators.

Conversation Starter Awards: recognizes those who have excelled in starting conversations about stories published on Opensource.com. Selected by the Opensource.com team.

Emerging Contributor Awards: (new award) recognizes new contributors to the Opensource.com community. Selected by the Opensource.com team.



#4. Good design matters for open source projects

https://opensource.com/life/15/2/good-design-matters-open-source-projects

Rushabh Mehta walks us through what it was like for his team to find the right company to redesign their open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project, ERPNext. He focuses on the importance of taste as well as the brief, the designer, and the process for the project in executing a successful design to increase user engagement of an open source project. This kind of advice is good for anyone trying to reach new audiences and improve the experience of their users.

#3. DevOps culture needs to be created

https://opensource.com/business/15/2/devops-culture-needs-be-created

Gordon Haff is Red Hat’s cloud evangelist writes that DevOps is fundamentally about adopting many of the same open source best practices, like agility, transparency, collaboration, iterative fast release, and, continuous integration. Haff says, "These come together and, over time, create an open source lifestyle and culture. They can likewise come together to make DevOps thrive."

#2. How the 9 major tenets of the Linux philosophy affect you

https://opensource.com/business/15/2/how-linux-philosophy-affects-you

David Both is a Linux pro, and it shows in his writing on the subject of the Linux philosophy. A couple of months ago, he wrote about what the Linux philosophy is, in an article titled: The impact of the Linux philosophy. In his new article, he follows up to readers comments and shares what context the 9 major tenents of the Linux philosophy have on our daily lives.

#1. Introducing the Raspberry Pi 2, and a new resource



https://opensource.com/life/15/2/introducing-raspberry-pi-2-and-new-rasp...

Jason Baker brings us the news of the Raspberry Pi 2, the newest upgrade to the tiny computer board that is making headlines in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on the BBC. The Raspberry Pi 2 has a faster processor and twice the memory, both of which means this little guy can be used as a full replacement for a desktop computer! And only for $35. Amazing. Tacking on to this news is the release of our newest resource on Opensource.com, What is a Raspberry Pi?, written by Jason Baker and Ruth Suehle, who is the author of recent book Raspberry Pi Hacks.