Our friends at Packt have announced their 2008 Open Source Content Management System Awards. As you may know, Joomla! has performed extremely well in previous years, taking out several prestigious awards. Nominations open on July 14.
Last year, Joomla! took out the "Best Open Source PHP CMS". Drupal won the overall award. However, last year Joomla's fabulous 1.5 version was still in beta and not necessarily on the judge's radar. The new framework could very well take J! over the line for 2008.
Packt says: "The format for the 2008 Award remains the same, with the addition of a new category, which will replace Open Source Social Networking. This exciting new category is for MVPs at Open Source Content Management Systems. This will recognise the contributions to projects made by individuals that often go unnoticed. For the large majority of Open Source projects, it is the tireless contributions from enthusiastic individuals that enable its growth and adoption and these are the people that Packt feels is necessary to identify. MVPs will be nominated by their projects and will be announced during the final week, with features on the MVPs for the Content Management Systems that won their categories."
The full timetable is as follows:
- Jul 14 : Nominations open
- Aug 25 : Nominations close
- Sep 01 : Finalists announced and voting opens
- Oct 20 : Voting ends
- Oct 27 : Open Source Content Management System MVPs announced
- Oct 28 : Best Other Open Source CMS announced
- Oct 29 : Best PHP Open Source CMS announced
- Oct 30 : Most Promising Open Source CMS announced
- Oct 31 : Overall Winner announced
For full details of the 2008 Open Source CMS Award, please visit the website: www.PacktPub.com/Award
The prize fund for the Award remains at a total of $20,000. The money from the Social Networking Award will be distributed to the Best PHP and Best Other CMS categories, with the projects finishing in second and third collecting $500.
Keep your eyes on the Packt site and make sure you vote!
