"While the misconception that a database is an absolute requirement for complex web applications may not be listed as the second most common error of the 21st century, it is a misconception that continues to go largely unchallenged."

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"So what does this have to do with OpenEdit? Simple. We want to change the world. Or more precisely, your world. The difference is we want to change your world at work."

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A year-round organization dedicated to supporting emerging artists and independent films, Slamdance Inc., was in need of an interactive Content Management web application to support their online filmmaker community. With its renowned film festival as its core, Slamdance wanted to expand its ventures to include the popular Slamdance.com website, writing competitions for both screenplays and teleplays, the Anarchy Online Short Film Competition, a $99 Special short film production project, a Games competition and the newly announced Slamdance Horror Screenplay Competition, where an annual chosen script is guaranteed to be produced as a feature film.

Said Joel Halse Director of IJ Solutions, "Christopher Burkey, President of OpenEdit, approached me to take part in the Slamdance project. At the time, Slamdance had an existing site that was missing some important social and community features and functionality such as, uploading and playing of videos from within a video catalog, accepting online screenplay submissions, online voting capabilities, built in community features including blogs, news, forums with membership tracking and so forth. "

Packt Publishing is creating quite an exciting week in the world of open source content management systems.  The publishing company announced the winner of their Best Open Source Other CMS Award and it's mojoPortal!

Packt can exclusively reveal the second category winner of the Open Source Content Management System Award as mojoPortal, winning Best Other Open Source CMS. In another tight category, mojoPortal came out ahead of Plone and Silva who came second and third respectively.

Congratulations to mojoPortal for recieving the award.  mojoPortal holds dear to CMS Report's heart on the simple fact that it's project leader, Joe Audette, really was the very first project leader that sent us an e-mail to call attention to his content management system.  I feel like we've grown up together.

Some of the new features included in the latest release of OpenEdit, version 5.622 include:

• New job/issue tracking project form
• Validating and Captcha
• Improved interface (via ajax use) for adding menu's items inline and image archive
• New synchronize/pull ability to mirror OpenEdit web sites

Check out the release notes for complete details.

On Monday, Packt Publishing announced the five finalists in each category of its 2007 Open Source Content Management System Award.  The five categories are Most Promising, Best PHP CMS, Best Other (Non-PHP) CMS, Best Social Networking CMS, and Overall Winner.  In the finals stage, the public as a whole is eligible to vote for each category through October 26th.  While that may seem like a long time for the polls to be open, I'd encourage you to vote early so that you have no excuse for why your favorite CMS didn't make it to the winners list.

Around this time last year, Packt Publishing announced the "top five" finalists for their award (no separate categories in 2006).  In 2006, those CMS projects that made it to the finalist list included Drupal, e107, Joomla, Plone, and Xoops.  When those five CMS were announced, I chose to double my efforts on covering those applications here at CMS Report.  Although the extra categories this year have brought quite a few more Open Source CMS into the foreground, I still don't see why I couldn't keep most of them on my CMS Focus radar scope.  With 16,000 people nominating their favorite CMS for this award, that amount of generated interest is hard to ignore.  Luckily, I already cover many of the CMS that did make it as a finalist...but there are still many new CMS on that list that will shake things up a bit here at CMSReport.com.