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The Judges will be choosing from the finalists that received the most nominations, during the nomination stage. They will be basing their choices on a number of factors including performance, usability, accessibility, ease of configuration and customization, scalability and security.
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Open Source CMS Award Timeline
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.
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Best Open Source PHP CMS Judges
The Judges will be choosing from the five Content Management Systems that received the most nominations, during the nomination stage. They will be selecting their top three based on a number of factors including performance, usability, accessibility, ease of configuration and customization, scalability and security. The Judging panel is made up from a list of experienced and respected figures in the open source and Content Management industry:
Deane Barker, Gadgetopia.com
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Judge, Deane BarkerDeane Barker has been blogging at Gadgetopia for the last five years while running his Web development company, Blend Interactive.  During that time, he's racked up almost 7,000 posts on a series of subjects that he tries (and fails) to keep centered around Web development. Deane's passions are content management, intranet development, and the intersection between technology and ecology.



Marc Delisle, phpMyAdmin
Award Judge, Marc DelisleMarc Delisle is a member of the MySQL Developers Guild – which regroups community developers – because of his involvement with phpMyAdmin. He started to contribute to this popular MySQL web interface in December 1998, when he made the first multi-language version. He has been actively involved with the phpMyAdmin project since May 2001 as a developer and project administrator.

He has worked since 1980 at Collège de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, as an application programmer and network manager. He has also been teaching networking, security, Linux servers, and PHP/MySQL application development. In one of his classes, he was pleased to meet a phpMyAdmin user from Argentina.

Marc enjoys spending time with his two sons and two daugthers.  

For more information, please visit www.phpMyAdmin.net



Stoyan Stefanov, PHPied.com
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Judge, Stoyan StefanovStoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! web developer, Zend Certified Engineer, book author, and contributor to the international PHP community. He talks regularly about JavaScript, PHP, and other web development topics at conferences and his blog www.phpied.com and also runs a number of other sites, including JSPatterns.com – a site dedicated to exploring JavaScript patterns. Stoyan is the engineering lead of Yahoo's performance optimization tool 'YSlow', as well as other open-source tools and 'PEAR' libraries.











Lenz Grimmer, MySQL
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Lenz GrimmerLenz Grimmer is a member of the MySQL Community Relations team at Sun Microsystems' Database Group. He lives in Hamburg, Germany and has worked for MySQL since April, 2002. Before joining the Community Relations team in December 2005, he was a member of the Release Engineering team that is in charge of creating the official release builds of the MySQL server. Prior to working for MySQL, Lenz was an engineer in the distribution development team of SuSE Linux in Nuremberg for four years. His first work experiences with LAMP environments date back to 1995, when he took his first job as a systems administrator and web developer for a small web company. He has a degree in Computer Science and has been involved in Linux and Open Source since 1994. In his spare time, Lenz enjoys playing with his daughter Lena and spending time in the garden.

For more information, please visit: www.MySQL.org



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The final judge is made up of votes from customers and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. You have the chance to support your favourite CMS by submitting a vote when the final five are announced.

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