Packt is about to launch the 2010 Open Source award – now at its fifth edition, formerly known as Open Source CMS Awards – an award organized to encourage, support, recognize, and reward Open Source projects selected by a panel of judges and Packt website visitors. This year they have a prize fund of $247,000 spread across six categories.
Last week Packt has announced that Drupal has won both the best open source PHP CMS Category and the Hall of Fame new category. Having been one of the judges for the first category, I wish to share some thoughts about my number 1, 2 and 3.
As a long-time Joomla! user turned WP-convert, my feeling is that this is simply a recognition of what WP users have already known. I’m glad I finally made the switch. Congratulations.
As a project manager who loves WordPress, I often get asked why is it the right CMS to use. At the end of the day it comes down to preference. Preference of the client and developer.
However, at a meetup in San Diego recently on the discussion of what CMS to use, the leader of the discussion said the Open Source CMS matrix was a good place to get a comparison. The reality is that it is not a good source of information. The version of WP they are using for the comparison is 2.2.1 when the most recent is 2.9.1. Anyone who has worked with WP knows the improvements made between these versions are astounding and the main reason why WP just won the Best Open Source CMS in 2009.
Great post on how to view a comparison.
/soapbox
Hi Chris,
you are definitely right saying that is a matter of preference, and public directories maybe outdated and have to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Beyond personal preferences a number of metrics can help customers go open source, though. Recently I have been analyzing 4 open source selection methodologies, studying findings from 8 different research projects and assessing over 60 tools useful to measure software quality and other indicators, eventually creating a system for fast open source software selection. I’ll soon share some charts and reports comparing open source CMS and other open source applications walking through the system’s highlights, stay tuned!
Packt announced the launch of the fourth open source CMS award, an award organized by the publish company since 2006 in order to encourage, support, recognize, and reward open source Content Management Systems.
Nominations are open until the 11th of September, to submit a nomination have a look at the 5 different categories and if you are looking for inspiration visit open source directories like opensourceCMS or CMSMatrix.
I am honoured to have been invited to join the judge panel this year, and I am looking forward to share my thoughts with other judges and learn about their views.
Have fun with it! I’ve been on the panel of judges at the past awards and it was great fun. You learn a lot about the many great CMSes out there.
Glad to hear that, I am really looking forward to it!
Packt – the publishing company specialized in books on software running yearly the open source CMS award – published “Flash with Drupal“, another book on Drupal.
Travis Tidwell – author of the book, creator of the Dash Media Player of and founder of TMT Digital – shows how to work with hybrid Flash-Drupal architecture, introducing readers to create Flash applications from scratch.
The book is a step by step guide, readers need some understanding of ActionScript and PHP, as for Flash no knowledge is required. See Delicioso website to have an idea of what he can do with Flash and Drupal.
Packt – the publishing company specialized in books on software that have developed vibrant online communities – published â€Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutionsâ€, yet another book on the 2008 Open Source CMS Award Winner.
Packt – the publishing company specialized in books on software that have developed vibrant online communities – just published â€Drupal for Education and E-Learningâ€, yet another book on the 2008 Open Source CMS Award Winner.
The â€Drupal for Education and E-Learning†book was written by Bill Fitzgerald of FunnyMonkey, a company that recently launched a platform aimed at helping schools to share commons. The book was reviewed by Joel “Senpai” Farris, COO at WorkHabit, Michael Peacock, founder of a consultancy specialised in web design, and Peter Wolanin, Drupal core developer now employed by Acquia.
Thanks for the mention, Roberto!
â€Alfresco Developer Guide,†yet another book from Packt, written by Jeff Potts, Director of ECM practice at Optaros and winner of the Alfresco’s 2007 Community Contributor award.
Jeff’s first book is aimed at tomorrow’s Alfresco developers, introducing them to tools and skills required to implement Alfresco-based solutions, how to define custom content model, advanced workflows and much more.
Customizing and extending Alfresco becomes a step-by-step discovery, bringing you to deploy Alfresco throughout your own organization just following the examples. You will learn also things like using the jBPM jPDL designer, or implementing a Single Sign-On using CAS from JA-SIG.
Roberto Galoppini, 
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