2008 Open Source CMS Award Details Announced

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 | News | Content Management

Packt is pleased to announce details of the upcoming 2008 Open Source Content Management System Award. Beginning with the Nominations stage on July 14, the 2008 Award will run for a total of 15 weeks, with the winners being announced during the last week of October.

During 2007, five Open Source Content Management Systems won categories, with Drupal winning the overall Award. 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:

July 14 Nominations open

August 25 Nominations close

September 1 Finalists announced and voting opens

October 20 Voting ends

October 27 Open Source Content Management System MVPs announced

October 28 Best Other Open Source CMS announced

October 29 Best PHP Open Source CMS announced

October 30 Most Promising Open Source CMS announced

October 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.

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