Open source-focused provider Black Duck Software this past week announced the winners of its fourth annual Open Source Rookies of the Year. Black Duck used data on open source projects from sources including Ohloh.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.
Bootstrap
Bootstrap, a toolkit from Twitter designed to kick-start development of web applications and sites.
BrowserID
BrowserID, a secure, decentralised, open source, cross-browser way to sign onto websites based on the user's email address.
Canvas
Billed by Black Duck as "the only commercial open source learning management system and the only LMS native to the cloud".
Cloud Foundry
An open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services.
Moai
Moai is a mobile platform for game developers that offers cloud-based game services and rapid development of iOS, Android, and Chrome titles using the Lua scripting language.
Mooege
Mooege, an open source educational game server emulator.
OpenShift
OpenShift, a free, auto-scaling Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) from Red Hat.
Orion
Orion, a browser-based open tool integration platform built by the Eclipse platform team.
rstat.us
rstat.us, a microblogging platform that's set apart by its simplicity and openness, Black Duck says.
Salt
Salt, an open source configuration management and remote execution application.
Open source-focused provider Black Duck Software this past week announced the winners of its fourth annual Open Source Rookies of the Year. Black Duck used data on open source projects from sources including Ohloh.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.
