With so many open source software projects under way at any given moment, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all that’s going on.
Firefox, Linux, LibreOffice, and the partially open Androidplatform may dominate the lion’s share of the headlines, but there are countless lesser-known open source efforts that are equally worthy of attention.
Want a few examples? Open source-focused provider Black Duck Software this past week announced the winners of its fourth annual Open Source Rookies of the Year. Included in the list are a bunch of new projects that are worth watching.
10 Up-and-Comers
To come up with its list, Black Duck used data on open source projects from sources includingOhloh.net. It says it reviewed thousands of open source projects started in 2011.
Winners were chosen using a weighted scoring system that awarded points based on commit activity (the number of changes made to the software per day), the size of the project team, and the number of in-bound links to the project.
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