Open Source Content Management System Award Finalists Announced

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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.
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Please note that voting has now ended. Thank you to everyone who took part. The winner of the iPod will be announced on November 14.

Following six weeks and almost 12,000 nominations, Packt Publishing is pleased to announce the five Content Management Systems that have made it through to the final of the 2006 Open Source CMS Award.

With a total of 74 different open source Content Management Systems being nominated, the competition was high. The top ten were separated by very few nominations and the eventual result brought together an interesting mix of established projects and some newer names:

(Listed in alphabetical order)

Drupal
e107
Joomla!
Plone
Xoops

These five will now go through to a final voting stage that begins on September 12 and runs through till November 7. The final will be voted for by an independent panel of judges comprising of three industry experts and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. Made up of representatives from The Open Source Collective, MySQL and the Eclipse Foundation, the judges will be looking at usability,

Visitors to Packt’s website www.PacktPub.com will also be playing a key role in deciding the eventual winner of the Award. From September 12, voting will commence on the site, with visitors invited to submit their choice for the best Open Source Content Management System.

To take part in the voting stage, visit www.packtpub.com/cms_award_final_five and register your choice before November 7.