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Every week, I check out the stats and look in on the chatter to see what stories have been most popular with our readers. If you have an article you loved from this week that isn't on the list, tell us in the comments why you think it should have made a bigger splash.

Top 5 articles of the week

#5 - 12 highlights from the OpenStack roadmap

Jason Baker, resident OpenStack guru, serves up 12 videos with a short summary for each, of OpenStack projects and their plans for 2015. Project Team Leads for each of the projects talk about the project's core mission, what was accomplished in the last release, and the goals for the next (Kilo) release.

#4 - The power of Docker and open source ecosystems

Docker was named one of the Top 10 open source projects by Opensource.com, and in this article CEO of Docker, Inc., Ben Golub, reflects on the power of open source ecosystems and communities as a big contributor to their success. Ben expresses his excitement to have Docker on the list for a second year in a row and names fellow top-listers as partners in the Docker ecosystem. He says Ansible, Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, and OpenStack have all embraced a truly "open" model, including governance, contribution, design, and interfaces. What's the roadmap look like for Docker in 2015? Ben dedicates three solid paragraphs to this question, so find out!

#3 - 10 entry points to tech (for girls, women, and everyone)

If you are part of an open source project, you may know that entry might not always be the easiest. It's a topic we cover frequently on the site, we even have a series of articles for the Beginner in Open Source. Here, OpenStack sysadmin Elizabeth Jospeh shares a list of tips just for women, just for girls, and then for everyone. Maybe you're just interested in seeing the gender gap close in open source and tech. Elizabeth urges you to volunteer and gives some tips for that.

#2 - The building blocks of a distribution with Linux from Scratch

If you know Linux, you know that each distribution is built using the same basic building blocks but the end results are always different. To learn more about those building blocks and how to build a Linux foundation, Joshua Holm recommends that you turn to Linux from Scratch. And if you want to take it beyond that, to build your own functional and customized system then Beyond Linux from Scratch is for you. There are three other projects you may be interested in too, and for more information on Automated Linux from Scratch, Cross Linux from Scratch, and Hardened Linux from Scratch check out this article.

#1 - 5 open source projects to join in 2015

Scott Nesbitt shares five open source projects you should join in 2015. They may not be the highest profile projects, like Docker or OpenStack, but they made the list because of their ease of entry as a newcomer and unique project challenges. Find out more about BRL-CAD, Speed Dreams, OpenMRS, Audacity, and FLOSS Manuals in this article. And if those don't suit you there are two awesome resources you can use to find one that might: OpenHatch and Open Hub help you track, compare, and choose an open source project to join.