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Winners of O'Reilly's COMDEX Contest Anounced

Posted by Cliff on from the congratulations dept.

Alexander Limi writes: "The winners of the O'Reilly "Open Source Goes to COMDEX" Contest have been announced. The lucky ones are: GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice, Zope, GIMP and our own project, Plone. Congratulations to all the deserving projects! Check out the announcement here."

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  1. Zope wins twice by PineHall · · Score: 4, Informative

    Plone is built on Zope, so Zope really wins twice.

  2. Re:Number of votes? by bhtooefr · · Score: 3, Informative

    You had to sign up for a (free) O'Reilly account. You could only vote for 3. I voted for KDE, OOo, and GIMP...

  3. You are missing an important distinction... by supton · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...that Plone's UI (esp. in 2.0 beta) is modular. It is Section 508 and W3C WAI compliant. It also can be rendered on mobile-phones, large-format, and presentation/print CSS devices without need for ANY changes to the HTML output or multiple sets of templates. From an architecture and extensibility standpoint, Plone's UI is really best-in-class. It also has the largest and most diverse audience and user-base of any open-source CMS, as well as formal standards for process improvement (the PLIP process), which definitely aides in the UI development/refinement process.

  4. Why is GNOME before KDE in the list? by jokkebk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is it just me, or did anybode else wonder the order of the winners in the story?

    I mean, it isn't alphabetical, it isn't ordered by the amount of votes. Mentioning Plone last because it has a comment attached is reasonable, but moving GNOME from the bottom of the list in front of KDE and preserving the order otherwise was odd.

    The first thought that occurred to me was "so, the GNOME seems to have beaten KDE", so I was slightly surprised when I read the O'Reilly announcement.

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  5. Slashdot in Plone? Done! by axxackall · · Score: 3, Informative
    Can we have Slashdot in Plone now please?

    Done, it's called Zope Zen.

    Seriously though, it would make a great CMS migration case study

    Speaking about case studies, check available docs, alive borads and screenshots for NeoBoard and CMFBoard. As you can see - both are developing in the same direction (kind of mixing Slashdot and PHPBB ideas), and both have already achived very similar quality and functionality levels, dispite the fact that CMFBoard was mostly developed from scratch (although under strong influence of many ideas from other available boards), while NeoBoard was re-written from PHP to Plone by the original PHP developer of the original PHP-based NeoBoard.

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