Nominations for PacktPub.com’s Open Source CMS Awards 2009 end tomorrow. I will keep this short and just remind you to get in there and nominate your favorite open source CMS for each category.  You can click the links below to get to the nominations page for each category.

PacktPub Open Source CMS Awards 2009 Categories

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

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