This year on Opensource.com, we published a fantastic number of interviews with open source professionals. Our writers had the opportunity to talk to many talented leaders, engineers, community managers, and more—all of them stars in their fields, at their companies.

Take these for example: CEO of Lulu.com Bob Young, Head of Open Source at Facebook James Pearce, and OpenStack Board of Directors member Tim Bell of CERN. Imagine for a moment all of the advice, experience, and stories that just these three people must have shared. But we did a whole lot more interviews than that, and you can comb through a large collection of them.

Here are my favorite 10 interviews on Opensource.com in 2014. I highly recommend you bookmark them today!

How OpenStack powers the research at CERN

Tim Bell is a key player in the implementation of OpenStack at CERN. He talked to Opensource.com Community Lead Jason Hibbets before the OpenStack Summit in Paris this year, telling him they have scaled OpenStack on over 3,000 servers/70,000 cores to meet their users needs for their research. Tim also shared insight on the OpenStack community, describing how their journey has progressed since it's inception. Read the interview.

Open source moves from accepted to expected

Dwight Merriman is a serial entrepreneur. He co-founded MongoDB and is a big fan of open source. Prior to MongoDB, Dwight was co-founder of DoubleClick and Panther Express. Robin Muilwijk talked to him before the All Things Open 2014 on topics ranging from MongoDB's business model to hiring technical talent. Read the interview.

Diversity is a crucial component of meritocracy

Executive VP and head of Red Hat's human resources operations, DeLisa Alexander, is not only in a professional position to comment on gender and diversity in open source and tech, but she has also personally campaigned for inclusiveness in the workplace to produce better outcomes for everybody. She talked to Jodi Biddle before All Things Open 2014 and moderated a panel on women in technology at the conference. Read the interview.

Facebook has over 200 open source projects on GitHub

James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, talked to me about the newly formed TODO group and how the number of open source projects by Facebook has reached 200+ on GitHub. Pearce also gives good advice for young people who are enthusiastic about open source. Read the interview.

Chief Architect of Cloudera on growth of Hadoop

Doug Cutting is founder of numerous successful open source projects, including Lucene and Hadoop, and currently the chief architect at Cloudera. He also sits on the Board of the Apache Software Foundation. He talked to Robin Muilwijk before All Things Open 2014, opening up on how working on open source is more about common sense than creed. Read the interview.

Contributing effectively to OpenStack's Neutron project

Kyle Mestery is a Senior Director and Chief Technologist for Open Source Networking at HP where he is responsible for technical vision, strategy, and development for open source initiatives. He also works on OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and Open vSwitch. He is also Program Technical Lead (PTL) for the OpenStack Neutron project, the networking component of OpenStack handling the complex task of connecting machines in a virtual environment. He talked to Jen Wike Huger before the OpenStack Summit this year about the Neutron project. Read the interview.

Talk with CEO of Kaleidos, new project management tool Taiga

Taiga is a new open source project management tool. Just 2 months after their launch in October, Taiga gained approximately 12,000 registered members, 10,000 projects, and 1000 GitHub clones. I talked to the CEO of company behind Taiga to learn what propelled such growth. Read the interview.

What it takes to make a cloud deployment successful

As a technical leader at Cisco and a co-founder of the Triangle OpenStack Meetup, Mark Voelker gets to see OpenStack from a lot of different points of view. OpenStack Editor for Opensource.com, Jason Baker, caught up with him before All Things Open 2014 to learn more about his work at Cisco and OpenStack. Read the interview.

On a quest for a new logo and open design at Mozilla

A name almost synonymous with open culture, Mozilla has been at the forefront of open source culture. Art Director for Mozilla, Sean Martell, helps lead the team working on Mozilla’s visual design. And lately he’s been involved in redesigning Mozilla’s iconic logos. Instead of working behind closed doors, Martell and his colleagues opened up the design process to get the help of the wider, Mozilla community. Scott Nesbitt catches up with him in this interview. Read the interview.

Why is Docker the new craze in virtualization and cloud computing?

Jodi Biddle caught up with the VP of Services for Docker, James Turnbull, who ran a Docker crash course at OSCON this year. Besides finding out what Docker is anyway, they discussed the cloud, open source contributing, and getting a real job. Read the interview.

Bonus list: Interviews from open source conferences