Top 10 and editor's picks: July review

We published 92 articles in July, including two series: Open Source for System Administrators and Texas Linux Fest. We welcomed 15 new authors, and our community moderators contributed 24 articles (26% of our total content).

We also introduced two new columns last month. Community moderator Don Watkins started a new column on Opening Up Education, and James Falkner introduced a new Community Metrics Playbook column.

Our team thanks the 1,200+ community members who took our annual editorial survey last month. Reader feedback helps us set the direction for Opensource.com, and the survey comments warmed our community-loving hearts. Here are a few of our many favorites:

• "Your articles are very informative and easy to understand—perfect to forward it to executive officers making a case for open source. Thanks for that."
• "I really like Opensource.com for all sorts of reasons, including offering a platform for community writing and leveraging open source with open tutorials. I think it offers a great balance on the overview vs. in-depth perspective. And it's great fun to read the ideas of so many competent contributors."
• "Your resources are great, especially for beginners. I like the work to move open source ideas to practical fields beyond software."
• "The Opensource.com editorial team is one of the best teams I have come across. They helped me in writing my open source story in an enthusiastic way."
• "Good job with the newsletter. I generally follow links in your weekly email and research topics on my own further after getting an awareness from you."

July highlights

Editor's Pick 6

Here are six awesome articles from July:

• Sysadmin Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote two great articles for our Open Source for System Administrators series: 5 tools to support distributed sysadmin teams and 5 reasons system administrators should use revision control.
• Our community moderator and resident Perl pro D Ruth Bavousett offered practical Perl tricks for system administrators.
• Carla Schroder knows a thing or two about Linux because she's been Linuxing since before you were born.
• Seth Kenlon explains how to get started with ADRIANE, a simple menu system for blind Linux users.
• Find out why you should avoid vanity metrics and measure what matters in the first article in a new column by James Falkner.

Top 10 articles published in July

1. Top 10 Raspberry Pi add-on boards—by Ben Nuttall
2. 22 open source tools for creatives—by Opensource.com
3. Hands-on with the Linux-ready Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition—by Anderson Silva
4. When Linux is the face of kindness—by Phil Shapiro
5. 4 open source tools I used to write a Linux book—by Steven Ovadia
6. 3 open source alternatives to Microsoft Publisher—by Jason Baker
7. A open source toolkit for building your own home—by Joshua Pearce
8. How I use Linux for theoretical physics—by Jonas Hegemann
9. Getting started with Git—by Seth Kenlon
10. Build your own open source solar panels—by Don Watkins

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