Drupal Wins Overall Open Source CMS Award, 2007
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Results
2007 Overall Open Source Content Management System Award:1. Drupal
2. Joomla!
3. CMS Made Simple
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Most Promising Open Source Content Management System:
1. MODx
2. TYPOlight, dotCMS
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Best PHP Open Source Content Management System:
1. Joomla!
2. Drupal
3. e107
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Best Other Open Source Content Management System:
1. mojoPortal
2. Plone
3. Silva
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Best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System:
1. WordPress
2. Drupal, Elgg
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The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. Following on from the success of 2006, Packt has expanded the Award for 2007 with an increase in prize money and the addition of new categories.
The 2007 Award will continue to support open source Content Management Systems and in order to reward more than one project, Packt has developed new categories for a wider variety of CMS’s to benefit from. These are broken down into five different categories including the overall winner and the most promising Open Source CMS:
- Overall Winner
- Most Promising Open Source CMS
- Best Open Source PHP CMS
- Best Other Open Source CMS
- Best Social Networking CMS:
After more than 18,000 votes, we've now closed the voting for the 2007 Open Source CMS Awards. Votes are currently being counted and the judges decisions are coming through . The winners will be announced starting from Monday 29 October, in the following order:
Monday 29 October:
Best Open Source Social Networking CMS
Winner: WordPress
Joint Runners up: Drupal & Elgg
Tuesday 30 October:
Best Other Open Source CMS
Winner: mojoPortal
First Runner up: Plone
Second Runner up: Silva
Wednesday 31 October:
Best Open Source PHP CMS
Winner: Joomla!
First Runner up: Drupal
Second Runner up: e107
Thursday 1 November:
Most Promising Open Source CMS
Winner: MODx
Joint Runners up: TYPOlight, dotCMS
Friday 2 November:
Overall Winner
Winner: Drupal
First Runner up: Joomla!
Second Runner up: CMS Made Simple
Total Prize fund: $20,000
| Overall Winner | Most Promising | Best PHP | Best Other | Best Social Networking |
| 1. $5,000 | 1. $2,000 | 1. $2,000 | 1. $2,000 | 1. $2,000 |
| 2. $3,000 | 2. $1,000 | |||
| 3. $2,000 | 3. $1,000 |
The overall winner is the main category for the Awards, which is why it has been allocated half of the prize fund. We wanted to show our support for the less mature CMS’s in the most promising category by offering prize money to the top three. We want to be able to provide them with recognition, support and funds to progress. The final three categories all carry with it a prize for the winner only. All prize money is donated by Packt Publishing.
The winners of the iPod Nano from the voting stage are:
- Marshall Mayer, from the USA
- Roland Furtmayr, from Germany
- Scott Casley, from New Zealand
Congratulations to you three!
Winners of the iPod Nano from the final stage will be announced shortly.
2007 Award Rules
- Only nominations for open source Content Management Systems will be counted
- Only one nomination per person, per category will be counted
- The five open source Content Management Systems with the most nominations will go through to the final in each category
- A CMS cannot win the Overall category and the Most Promising category. They must be won by different CMS’s.
- The most promising category is open for Open Source Content Management Systems whose first release was under two years ago as of July 16, 2007
- During the final voting stage, only one vote per person will be counted
- The top three will be voted for by a panel of three judges. A final fourth vote will come from the results of a public vote on www.PacktPub.com
- All judges are independent and their decision is final
- Category Award winners will be decided on a points basis. The CMS that the judges and public have voted as the number one will be awarded three points. The second placed CMS will receive two points and the third placed CMS will receive one point. The CMS with the highest number of points overall will be declared the winner
- In the event of a tie, an extra independent judge will be brought in
- Packt Publishing has no influence, input or say in the finalists or winners of any Award category
- The winners of the 4gb Apple iPod Nano will be chosen at random and will be contacted directly by Packt
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