In October, Opensource.com brought in 623,767 unique visitors, an all-time record, who generated more than a million page views. We published 89 articles, including 5 series: OpenStack Summit Barcelona, All Things Open, OSCON London, LinuxCon Berlin, and Halloween.

We welcomed 19 new authors, and 58% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community. Our community moderators contributed 23 articles.

Sixteen moderators and four columnists joined us at the All Things Open conference in Raleigh. Check out our Instagram account for photos from that week, and see our Facebook page for a fun album of photos from the Opensource.com All Things Open photo booth. We also got to catch up with dozens of Opensource.com contributors who were speaking, exhibiting, or attending sessions at the event. Videos from the Opensource.com-sponsored ATO lightning talks will be on our site soon.

October highlights

Editor’s Pick 6

Here are six of our many favorite articles from October:

1. Nitish Tiwari interviewed Jen Krieger and Gina Likins (A look inside the ‘blinky flashy’ world of wearables and open hardware) before their All Things Open talk. Their talk was hugely popular and you get an idea of how fun it was in this short Instagram video I shot when Jen swung by the Opensource.com booth afterward.
2. Tom Radcliffe explains why, despite being “old school,” Perl continues to attract new users.
3. LinuxQuestions.org founder Jeremy Garcia offers practical advice for how to ask technical questions to get the quality of answers you need.
4. In his tutorial for building a tornado warning system with a Raspberry Pi, Jim Scarborough shows how to make a weather radio.
5. Culture matters for encouraging innovative behaviors. President and CEO of Red Hat Jim Whitehurst explains.
6. Learn about a new effort to support security audits and remediation for open source software projects in Mark Bohannon’s introduction to Mozilla’s Secure Open Source Fund.

We also unveiled a new resource page: What are open standards?

Top 10 articles published in September

1. Which Raspberry Pi should you choose for your project?—by Ben Nuttall
2. 4 open source alternatives for Google Calendar—by Jason Baker
3. 3 command-line file conversion tools for Linu—by Scott Nesbitt
4. What is deep learning, and why should you care about it?—by Grant Ingersoll
5. Linux is a new frontier for young developer—by Maxim Stewart
6. An introduction to Linux filesystems—by David Both
7. Build your own Raspberry Pi tornado warning system—by Jim Scarborough
8. A $5 Linux server, open source software in China, and more news—by David Both
9. Why public libraries need to support open source—by Phil Shapiro
10. How Apache Kafka is powering a real-time data revolution—by Deb Nicholson

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