In 2016, Opensource.com published more than 1,000 articles and welcomed more than 200 first-time contributors to our community. This wouldn’t be possible without a fantastic community of contributors, readers, and sharers. Join us in celebration of our 7 year anniversary on January 25 by voting today in our 2017 Opensource.com Community Awards.

Two awards are up for voting from January 16 – 25:

Vote now – Voting closes on Wednesday, January 25

2017 Reader’s Choice Award nominees

2017 Best Interview Award nominees

• Keeping DOS alive and kicking with open source, interview with Jim Hall, FreeDOS Developer
• An introduction to OpenStack clouds for beginners, interview with Andrew Chow, OpenStack developer
• Is Brave the new champion the open web needs?, interview with Brendan Eich, JavaScript founder
• Finding the signal in the noise of Linux system monitoring, interview with Ilan Rabinovitch, director of Datadog’s Technical Community
• How Apache Kafka is powering a real-time data revolution, interview with Neha Narkhede, co-founder Confluent
• 8 reasons to make the switch to IPv6, interview with Owen DeLong, senior manager of Network Architecture at Akamai Technologies
• Hacking the farm with low-cost, open source tool designs, interview with Marcin Jakubowski, founder of Open Source Ecology
• Tips from a software engineer for a balanced life, interview with Kent Dodds, full stack JavaScript engineer at PayPal
• Driving cars into the future with Linux, interview with Alison Chaiken, software engineer at Peloton Technology
• MySQL and database programming for beginners, interview with Dave Stokes, MySQL Community Manager

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