There are is only about three weeks a day or two left to nominate your favorite open source content management system for Packt Publishing's 2009 Open Source CMS Award. This is the fourth year for the award and the third time I will be sitting on a judging panel for the award.
This award is often seen as a competition between open source CMS projects, however, I view the award as an opportunity to promote open source and content management to the masses. I also know many in the content management field that use these type of awards to help them decide which open source CMS projects should be on their radar too. While the winning open source projects do enjoy winning their share of the $24,000 in award money, I think the projects are more appreciative just knowing their users thought enough of their CMS to nominate them in the first place.
The 2009 Open Source CMS Award nominations have begun. Nominate your favorite CMS for the appropriate categories today and help them win their share of $24,000! If you've benefited from an open source CMS and would like to give something back to the team that made it happen, now is the time!
Seeing your favorite CMS win is not the only reward you could get for participating in this year’s Award. We’re giving away three 8GB iPod Nanos to three individuals at the nominations stage, and three 8GB iPod Touch’s to three individuals at the voting stage, all selected at random.
The following categories make up the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. Please read through our Award terms and conditions and the requirements for each category carefully before nominating your favorite project.
Categories
Best Overall Open Source CMS
Most Promising Open Source CMS
Best PHP Open Source CMS
Best Other Open Source CMS
Open Source MVPs
For those curious, besides sitting on the judging panel and a few review books I'm not affiliated with Packt Publishing. I've never taken a dime from Packt Publishing to promote this award or for that matter, their books. I say this, because if you win won of those Apple iPod Touch's and feel I should be better compensated for my time...you know where you can reach me.