This week's TOp 5 highlights an important announcement at DockerCon of the Open Container Project, the annual open source summer reading list (and contest), our interviews with the women in Open Source Award winners, and a template to get started with better documentation.
Top 5 articles of the week
5. Interview with winner of Red Hat's Women in Open Source Academic Award, Kesha Shah
This year Red Hat awarded its very first winners of the Women in Open Source Awards! There are two awards, a Community and an Academic. This year Kesha Shah, a full-time student, won in the Academic category "for her outstanding coding and mentoring work while studying information and communication technology." Read more about her and her work in this interview.
4. Interview with winner of the Red Hat Women in Open Source Community Award, Sarah Sharp
Winner of the Red Hat Women in Open Source Community Award this year is Sarah Sharp. Sarah is a software developer who has been involved in Linux kernel development since 2006. Read more about that in this interview. Plus, she gave her award money to Outreachy to help newcomers get involved in open source.
3. A template for starting project documentation
What is one of the most important parts of an open source project? Were you going to say documentation? If not, you're probably missing out on a valuable way to gain more contributors to your project, and keep them. Without good documentation, the project runs a high risk of stagnation. This article provides you with a much needed template to get started on better documentation today.
2. The Open Container Project and what it means
This week the Open Container Project was announced at DockerCon. It's the declaration of a standard container format that provides reference software for running a standardized container. Get more details about this important step and what it means for the industry from Stephen Walli's article.
1. The 2015 open source summer reading list
The Opensource.com reading list is an annual mainstay. This year, 15 books grace our list, and five readers will win a copy of one book. Read the official rules, and enter our contest! P.S. Cory Doctorow tweeted our list and we kinda geeked out.
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