Open Source CMS Awards Nominations Closing Soon

The 2009 Open Source CMS Awards brought to you by PacktPublishing are well into their nominations.  They began the nominations on the 3rd of August, but time is running out. Scheduled to end September 11th, 2009, nominations have been rolling in.  Obvious names such as Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, and others are sure to be among the competition.

The annual Open Source CMS Awards from PacktPub.com are designed to celebrate excellence in development while also keeping the open source spirit alive. With the downturns in the global economy over the last year open source technology has seen a dramatic rise in support as well as use, particularly in the enterprise level businesses, but small business as well.

The awards are broken down into 5 categories which include:

• Best Overall Open Source CMS
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best PHP Open Source CMS
• Best Other Open Source CMS
• Open Source MVPs

Voting for this year’s Open Source CMS Awards begins September 21st and winners will be announced starting on November 9th.

New Category for the 2009 Open Source Awards

This year’s awards bring us a new category directed at acknowledging previous Overall winners such as Drupal and Joomla.  The Hall of Fame Award will celebrate continued excellence above and beyond the others in the field.

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Congratulations to previous winners and good luck to nominees this year. Stay tuned for continued coverage of the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards from PacktPub.com.

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