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The Award is split up into two main stages. Firstly, nominations will begin on July 16. This is your chance to put forward your favourite CMS in each category to through to the final stage of voting, which will be announced at the beginning of September; this is when the voting stage begins. Voting closes on October 26, with the winners announced later that month and throughout the beginning of November. See More
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Voting begins on September 1
The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to
encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) that have been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to
www.PacktPub.com. Now entering its third year, the Award has established itself as an important measure for quality and the popularity of Open Source Content Management Systems.
The
2008 Award will continue to support a range of open source Content Management Systems with four main categories offering prize money of $5,000 for the overall winner and $2,000 for the winners of the remaining categories.
A new category has been developed and will
replace Open Source Social Networking. This exciting new category is for MVPs
at Open Source Content Management Systems. This is designed to 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.
We will be selecting three names at
random from the list of people who nominated, who will go on to win an
iPod Nano! Winners will be announced during September.
Total Prize fund: $20,000
| Overall
Winner | Most
Promising | Best
PHP | Best
Other |
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| 1.
$5,000 | 1. $2,000 | 1.
$2,000 | 1. $2,000 |
| | 2.
$3,000 | 2. $1,000 | 2. $500 | 2. $500
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| | 3.
$2,000 | 3. $1,000 | 3. $500
| 3. $500
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The overall
winner is the main category for the Awards, which is why it has been
allocated
half of the prize fund. We want to show our support for the less
mature CMS’s
in the most promising category by offering more prize money to the first and second runners up. We
want to be able to provide them with the recognition, support and funds to
progress. A change for 2008 will see the first and second runners up in the Best PHP and Best Other categories receiving $500.
All
prize money is donated by Packt Publishing.
Resources
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2008 Award Rules
- Only nominations for open source Content Management
Systems, available on an open source licence, 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. However, the same CMS can win the Overall and Best PHP/Other Award, for example. The judges for each category are different, which means results for the same CMS could be different across categories.
- The most
promising category is open for Open Source Content Management Systems
whose first release was under two years ago as of July 14,
2008. CMSs that entered the 2007 Most Promising category, that are still eligible for 2008 are invited to enter.
- During the final voting stage, only one vote
per person will be counted
- The top three will be
voted for by a panel of judges. A final 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
- Details of Open Source MVPs will be released following permission and confirmation from the respective projects
- 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
For more information: contact@packtpub.com
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