Congratulations are in order for the ImpressCMS team as they are the winners of this years Most Promising Open Source CMS Award.
From the announcement:
We are pleased to announce that ImpressCMS has won the Most Promising Open Source CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award.
While ImpressCMS took first place in this category, Pixie and Pligg weren’t far behind and settled for a tie in the first runner up spot.
ImpressCMS has featured in the top three in this category for the second time in a row, and has lived up to its reputation this year by winning the top spot.
Pixie and Pligg, on the other hand, featured in this category for the first time and managed to impress a lot of judges with their quality and support.
ImpressCMS has been awarded a prize of $2000 with runners up Pixie and Pligg getting $1000 each. Congratulations to all of the winners!
November 12, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Pligg is a great CMS
November 18, 2009 at 3:03 pm
how can a software based on another old one
can be set to most promising?
if it was something build from scratch I would
understand, but it isn’t, its based on xoops.
November 19, 2009 at 10:40 am
ImpressCMS, a fork?
MODx is a fork Etomite
Mia is a fork of Mambo
Joomla is a fork of Mambo
Zikula, Nuke is a fork of …etc. etc…
The whole open source community is built on that new teams with new, greater ideas take over, improve and accelerate development. But not all new sprouts survive…
The ImpressCMS team took on a new, strong path after that it’s mothership X had divided into strange debate and odd roadmaps that a majority of developers could not accept.
The ImpressCMS.org took on a clear visible path that many could support and it accelerated and has now taken the best stuff into a new era. It delivers both an outstanding easy to understand core with probably the most intuitive interface around, modules that make up pages and brings extra functions via blocks, easily and freely positioned by menu choice. Fully w3c standard, easy themable CSS and lots of serious themes around, many of them being free. Go grab and use ImpressCMS for your websites today!
/justanumber
November 19, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Justanumber,
the “Most promising CMS” is for new CMS that has been released for the first time in the last two years.
ImpressCMS is not a new CMS, it’s just a repackaged fork of XOOPS which is 8 years old, and therefore ImpressCMS should not qualify.
It’s like putting an 8 year old with new ID to fight in a competition for kids 2 years and younger.
What happens next year? You’ll fork Drupal and compete under new name in the “Most Promising CMS” Category?