$5000 Award for Open Source CMS

The Citizen writes "Packt Publishing has released details of an award scheme for open source Content Management Systems to enter and win a $5,000 prize. From the article: '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 PacktPub.com.' They're asking for people to submit nominations for their favorite open source Content Management System now."

Comments

Mambo will get it

[Anonymous Coward]

because everybody likes Mambo. It's got a good UI but the backend frankly kinda sucks - simple things become extremely cumbersome.

WordPress?

[Supersonic1425]

WordPress is a very competent open source CMS.

Re:WordPress?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, no, it's a blogging system, not a CMS. Maybe a type of CMS, not a generic CMS.

who can submit it?

[agent dero]

I'm not a developer on the project or anything...but can I go ahead and submit Drupal :)

It really is a great open source CMS...just not mine ;)

There's a lot of competition then

[Supersonic1425]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_source_ content_management_systems

easy to pick the best

[Anonymous Coward]

from 606! open source CMS systems to choose from

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

dont ever think that OSS doesnt give you a choice
and choice is good right ?

Re:easy to pick the best

[linuxbz]

That site compares all CMS, not just open source. It isn't even very easy to tell which ones are FOSS systems.

This is really dumb.

[Anonymous Coward]

The summary made it sound as if this is a bounty for producing an OSS CMS according to some criteria. But reading the award rules, this is just a popularity contest. Nominate one CMS which you think should win some money for doing nothing and the rest is up to Packt.

Re:who can submit it? Rules and slash

[Lord Satri]

FTA: "If you're a fan of a particular CMS or if you're part of a CMS project team, then we're looking for your nominations."

What's more curious is, from the rules: "3. The five open source Content Management Systems with the most nominations will go through to the final 4. 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."

So it seems the number of nominations matters a lot in case of this award, which doesn't necessarily promote quality over popularity.

I also wonder if slashcode itself should be amongst the runners. Slashcode isn't really widely used for various reasons (e.g. installation, perl development, features) and it's not like if 5000$ would make any difference to slash developers (I'm wrong?). Which makes me ask what are the requisite features a CMS must have to be considered a CMS. Agreeing on some definitions would be useful for such a contest.

Drupal geets my vote

[Aminion]

I have been pleasently surprised by Drupal. It is very easy to manage and extend, you get tons of functionality by using well developed modules, customizing its themes is easy and it has great i18n support. Drupal lately seems to have become the favorite open source CMS on the market and thereby increasing the number of developers working on it and people who can help you out.

Re:Parameters?

[bytesex]

Which is strange, because the mother of all CMSs, which also comes in a web-based form, has been around for so long. All they'd have to do is copy this.

Re:Parameters?

[Martz]

CMSMS (CMS Made Simple) http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ ... is the only CMS I've found which does exactly what I want, without overcluttering the entire admin cp or that requires a year of learning.

Great, simple and flexible. CMS + Smarty + CSS == a win for me!

Typo3, Joomla, ...

[Qbertino]

Since we're on the topic: Does anyone know of a CMS that does CMS-y things, but renders out to static pages that can be uploaded to any host?

Typo3 can switch to static documents very easyly. Joomla needs a little tweaking, iirc. As far as I know most of the current OSS CMS support generation of static content. It's the easyiest way to enable a cheap and easy means of caching.