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$5000 Award for Open Source CMS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gauntlets-thrown dept.

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."

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  1. who can submit it? by agent+dero · · Score: 4, Informative

    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 ;)

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  2. There's a lot of competition then by Supersonic1425 · · Score: 3, Informative

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

  3. easy to pick the best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative


    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 ?

  4. Re:who can submit it? Rules and slash by Lord+Satri · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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