$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

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 ;)

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: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.