Collaboration, containers & AI: Trends in open source reflected by "Rookies of the Year"

Since 2008, Black Duck has done an annual review of the world of open source to recognise top new projects launched during the previous year. The selection committee is made up of members of our Product Management and Product Marketing teams with data analysis help from the team that manages Black Duck's OpenHub.net Our goal is to leverage Black Duck's unique insight, as a company that has amassed a KnowledgeBase of nearly a million and a half open source projects, to shed light on projects that might not otherwise be on the radar of mainstream tech media. The 2015 Black Duck Open Source Software "Rookies of the Year" were announced in early March 2016 and marks the eighth year of the awards. Much has changed in open source since our first awards in 2008.