I guess 2008 is turning out to be year of the open source:

Ohloh, the prominent community site for open source developers, is making itself open source, including its full suite of tools and even the Web site itself.

The Ohloh site collates information from public open source version control systems, to create a database of the productivity of open source projects, and the developers working on them. A new “labs” section of the Ohloh site makes source code available, under the GPL version 2. This includes tools such as Ohcount, which counts lines of source code and can be used by companies to audit their software-development teams.

Read it all:
Open source community site goes open source – or go see Ohloh.

Is it just me paying more attention to open source initiatives – or is an new open source trend emerging? Google is doing it’s very best to giving open source initiatives momentum – lately by offering $10 million in awards in the Android Developer Challenge:

Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users, built by developers like you, will be a huge part of the Android vision. To support you in your efforts, Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards — no strings attached — for great mobile apps built on the Android platform.

Read more:
Android Developer Challenge

So, what source will open up next?