In order to ensure your favourite open source CMS is included for consideration for the Open Source CMS Award run by Packt Publishing, go to the following URL and vote:

http://www.packtpub.com/nominations

The Five CMS’ with the most votes will be judged by a panel of three judges:

  • Scott Goodwin, The Open Source Collective
  • Lenz Grimmer, MySQL
  • Nathan Gervais, Eclipse

US$5000 to the winning project, second prize $3000 and third prize $2000. Criteria are as follows:

The Judges will be choosing from the five Content Management Systems that received the most nominations, during the nomination stage. They will be selecting their top three based on a number of factors including performance, usability, accessibility, ease of configuration and customization, scalability and security.

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