Last Week of Nominations for the Packt Pub Open Source Awards

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This is the last week to get your nominations in for the Packt Pub 2011 Open Source Awards. Head on over to their website to get your nominations in before the time expires. The Open Source Awards is a contest that aims to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source projects. Formerly the Open Source CMS [...]

CMS Made Simple wins best Open Source CMS award

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CMS Made Simple has won the best Open Source CMS award in the 2010 Packt Publishing Open Source awards. CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. Runners up [...]

Have you cast your vote in the 2010 Open Source Awards?

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Voting for the fifth annual Open Source Awards is underway and closes on November 5th. Have you taken the time to cast your votes? Current contenders in the various categories: Open Source CMS Nominees are: CMS Made Simple MODx MojoPortal SilverStripe XOOPS Hall of Fame CMS Nominees are: Drupal Joomla WordPress Most Promising Open Source [...]

WordPress wins top prize in 2009 Open Source CMS Awards

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WordPress has won the top prize in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards that are put on every year by Packt Publishing from the UK. This year, it has been granted the title “Best Overall Open Source CMS” WordPress now has some additional credibility in the CMS market instead of just being considered a blog [...]

Drupal wins Hall of Fame award in 2009 CMS Awards

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Drupal has won the Hall of Fame award in the 2009 Packt Pub CMS Awards. From the announcement: We are pleased to announce that Drupal has won the inaugural Hall of Fame Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. With this award, Drupal has won two categories this year, the other one being Best [...]

ImpressCMS wins Most Promising Open Source CMS Award!

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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 [...]

Drupal wins 2009 Open Source PHP CMS Award

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Drupal has won the Packt Publishing 2009 Open Source CMS Award and been granted a prize of $2000. From the announcement: We are pleased to announce that Drupal has won the Best Open Source PHP CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. This category featured a very close contest between the top three, [...]

Plone wins Best Other Open Source CMS Award

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Plone has won Packt Publishing’s Best Other Open Source CMS Award and been granted a prize of $2000. Second place went to dotCMS and third to mojoPortal who walked away with $500 each. We are pleased to announce that Plone has won the Best Other Open Source CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS [...]

Why the Packt CMS Competition is Broken, and How to Fix It

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By now, many of us are excited to see the finalists for this year’s Packt Publishing Open Source CMS (Content Management System) Award competition, the annual contest in which dozens of companies compete to be highlighted as the year’s finest Content Management System. Entering its fourth year, this competition has grown nearly five-fold and is [...]

Who are you voting for in the CMS Awards?

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Another year of the Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards is upon us and we want to know who you are voting for this year. Which CMS’ do you feel is most deserving of these awards? Categories for this year remain the same and you can still get in your nominations using the below links: [...]

2008 Open Source CMS Award Finalists Announced

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Packtpub has announced the Finalists for the 2008 Open Source CMS Awards: “As usual, judging comes from a panel of experienced and respected figures from the Content Management and Open Source industry. They will be selecting their top three based on a number of factors including performance, usability, accessibility, ease of configuration and customization, scalability [...]