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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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Drupal Wins Overall Open Source CMS Award, 2007
2007 Results
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:
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
- Erlendur Gudmundsson, from Germany
- Tim Watts, from USA
Congratulations to you three!
Winners of the iPod Nano from the final stage are:
- Bo Allen, from the USA
- Roland Furtmayr, from Germany
- Scott Casley, from New Zealand
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
For more information: contact@packtpub.com
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