Every week, I tally the numbers and listen to the buzz to bring you the best of last week's open source news and stories on Opensource.com. This week: December 1 - 5, 2014.

Top 5 articles of the week

Patrick Masson left a comment on the site last week and it was so great that we turned it into an article. He is currently serving as the General Manager for the Open Source Initiative who maintains the industry recognized Open Source Definition and certifies licenses as "OSI Approved Open Source Licenses." Patrick says many new to the sector may not be familiar with these standards or how they are applicable to community and development practices, as we can see happening as open source becomes more popular and companies see an oppportunity to capitalize on that success.

Michelle Thorn, Mozilla’s Director of the Webmaker Program, defines openwashing as spinning a product or company as open, although it is not. What do you think? Do users care? Should they? Let us know in the comments.

Tin Whiskers Brewing Company is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and calls themselves "a local open source craft brewery on a mission to make technically excellent beer." Scott Nesbitt takes a look at how Jake Johnson, Jeff Moriarty, and George Kellerman hope to open the book on everything they do, including recipes for their beers. This trio are a group of electrical engineers who are also craft beer drinkers, homebrewers, and, as Scott describes, "people afflicted with the entrepreneurial spirit." Read more in this interview with George Kellerman.

Tobias Pfeiffer is a full-stack engineer and writes this informative article about ways you can get involved in an open source project and be part of the greater open source community without writing code or making commits. I have three Wordpress sites that I actively maintain, so my favorite is "improve the website." Find out what the other seven are!

Jiri Folta was looking for an easy, clean solution to have all his online storage services integrated with his Linux desktop. In this short tutorial, learn how to integrate ownCloud with the Gnome desktop and then add your favorite cloud providers to use all of your cloud accounts in one place just as easily as if they were local drives.

All operating systems have a philosophy. And, that philosophy matters... to the community, to the evolution of software. David Both has been in the IT industry for over thirty years, working for IBM for some of that time. He wrote the first training course for the original IBM PC in 1981! In this feature article, David pulls exerpts out of books on Linux and Unix, as well as, provides real world examples to illustrate "the Linux philosophy" and the impact it's had on the world.

See this week's Honorable Mention in the video!