Learn about the winners of the sixth annual Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year awards, recognizing the top new open source projects initiated in 2013. This year's Open Source Rookies honorees span cloud and software virtualization, privacy, social media and Internet of Things projects addressing needs in the enterprise, government, gaming and consumer applications, among others, and reflect important trends in the open source community.

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2. Appium: Test automation framework for mobile applications
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3. Docker: Pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container
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4. Exercism: Crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems
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5. Ghost: A publishing platform which is beautifully designed, easy to use and free
for everyone
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6. InfluxDB: An open-source, distributed, time series, events and metrics database
with no external dependencies
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7. OpenDaylight: Accelerating the adoption of Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
and creating a solid foundation for Network Functions Virtualization
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8. OpenIoT: Enabling a new range of open, large-scale, intelligent IoT (Internet of
Things) applications according to a utility cloud computing delivery model
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9. Serverspec: RSpec tests for your servers configured by Puppet, Chef or anything
else
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10. Project Tox: Secure instant messaging, video conferencing and more
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11. XPrivacy: The ultimate, yet easy to use, privacy manager for Android
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12. Flight: A lightweight, component-based, event-driven JavaScript framework that maps
behavior to DOM nodes
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13. Read more about the 2013 Rookies.
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