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For the second year in a row, UK publisher Packt is running the Open Source Content Management System Award and is accepting nominations until August 31, 2007.

The 2006 Open Source CMS Award was designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an open source Content Management System (CMS) selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. This year's Awards are intended to support and give more exposure to a broader range of open source Content Management Systems, and will have winners in several different categories:

Last year, Drupal placed second in this award, behind our friends at Joomla!. Can we pull ahead this year? Only your nominations will tell. :)

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dawehner
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commented

We will win!
We have to win!
:)
Perhaps Joomla won last year because of their development on the Version 1.5
so this year Drupal will win because of the new drupal6

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silverwing commented

Even though I use WordPress on my site, I just had to vote for Drupal. Just in innovation alone it should win!

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JohnForsythe commented

I sent in my 'vote'. I wonder how much weight is given to the number of nominations vs features?

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rayver commented

My vote is in.

I just recently moved from Joomla to Drupal and so far I'm impressed.

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dries commented

Voted!

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evolvedideas commented

Yup Yup

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yaph commented

Hey, these are exactly the categories I nominated Drupal for. Btw this is already the 3rd announcment for this award today in the News and announcements forum.

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themegarden.org commented

Just 'voted', and invited some friends to vote, too :)
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nishitdas commented

Done for all the three categories.
Last time around I was using Joomla and voted for it but this time my vote is for Drupal :-)

I was quite apprehensive when i started using drupal few months back . All the stuffs that i had read in webmaster forums like Digitalpoint, etc. forced me to think that the Drupal journey wld be very tough. But really it was not and now I am happy that I had made the right decision of moving from Joomla to Druapl.

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bpocanada commented

My Vote is in with my local team. India team will vote tonight.
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lilou commented

Voted too.

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v1nce commented

My votes are in. Go Drupal!
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pat7471 commented

Last year I voted for Joomla! simply because I didn't know Drupal yet.

This year, I have already voted for Drupal in all three categories...

Drupal ROCKS!!!
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roncjl commented

Just nominated Drupal as well! Go go Drupal! ^_^

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seakayjay commented

I used both Drupal and Joomla for the websites i'd built. But I still prefer Drupal. Therefore, I vote for Drupal.

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CrisN commented

voted too ;-)

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niklp commented

This will be a cinch, Drupal has grown so much in the last year it can't fail to win at least one of these awards.

I reckon it will win the social networking vote hands-down, and quite possibly the other two as well.

Can't hurt can it? :)

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marcingy commented

Voted

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James Yap commented

I think Joomla will win again. :( That's because there are more beginners than advanced users when come to CMS. Drupal is unable to attract new users faster than Joomla (and wordpress) did because of the learning curve. It scared away potential users.

See the Google Trend.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=joomla%2C+drupal%2C+wordpress%2C+xoops%2C...

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mokargas commented

Agreed Joomla will win; Drupal does need a beginner friendly presentation layer I think, or more out of the box ready-made goodness for beginners. Regardless, as much as I love Wordpress, I voted for Drupal; the "meat" as it were is all there. The potential is all there.

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Rowanw commented

I honestly don't think you can minimize the learning curve in Drupal much more, perhaps an improvement would be to provide an option to install "sample data" during initial setup. You can learn a lot by seeing someone else's configuration and how they got there.

I'm confident Drupal will win all three categories nonetheless.

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dries commented

I'm all for sample data. Feel free to submit a patch for Drupal 6 that adds a 'sample profile' to Drupal.

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AmyStephen commented

Sample data is good and bad. It is not easy explaining to new users how to remove sample data, either. You get some of the strangest questions, too, because they don't always get it that it is just data - it can be removed and nothing will break! hehe! It's good to see in Joomla! v 1.5, there is an option to *not* install sample data.

Hands down - without a doubt - Drupal has Best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System in the bag. Drupal is amazing for connecting people.

Best of luck to Drupal!

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James Yap commented

I have played with several CMS and find that the 2 CMS below has very good 'sample data' or 'skeleton' that explain many stuffs to the beginners.

http://www.cmsmadesimple.com
http://www.modxcms.com

Both are where I learn about CMS and then later switch to Drupal. If not of them, it is unlikely I can understand why Drupal is good.

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yaph commented

The Joomla Admin section no doubt has a good interface but I don't think it's more userfriendly. Before you can create content in Joomla you need to know that you must set up at least one section and one category, and there are many additional options you can set. I think Joomla is quite overloaded.
Nonetheless, sample data would help Drupal beginners, a post that explains the necessary steps to add new content would be quite useful. What about a short tutorial taken from the documentation summarizing the most important steps for beginners?

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electronicmonkey commented

i am afraid I don't see the reason behind this competition. Both frameworks have their strong points and failures. I have used both. An accusation that has worked against Joomla in the past is that the development team is "release happy". Drupal seems quite pleased to toe the same line. However Joomla is at least backward integrable and most of the add-ons can even be shared with Mambo; its progenitor.. To be quite honest , as much as I like the "ease of use ", that is a feature of Drupal, when compared with Joomla, Drupal is toyware . I'll vote for Drupal nevertheless.

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Ole Martin commented

More and more people will know about Drupal, and here in Norway the Drupalgroup are growing and growing. Of course!

Ole Martin
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http://www.drupal1.no

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kranberry commented

One thing the Drupal installer could do is offer the user a set of screens that:

  • Allows initial high-level customization without having to go to the Admin section. For example:
    • Title of website
    • Slogan
    • Logo
    • Theme
  • Allows user to select common functionality (e.g., blog, image gallery, etc.)
    • It then installs and enables the appropriate modules
    • It populates the database with a sample entry for each one to get started
  • Provides templates of simple types of websites to get the user started. For example:
    • Personal blog
    • Personal community
    • Brochure-site for small company

Anything like this would be a huge boost in getting new users up and running. This way, they can learn how to use the Admin section after they have their website up and running - not before.

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dries commented

A lot of what you say makes sense, and it's also the reason why we introduced install profiles in Drupal 5. Drupal 6 extends the installer a bit and makes the framework for install profiles a bit more robust, but not to the extend that you are describing. It just takes one or two persons to write a couple of install profiles for Drupal core. I don't know whether you're a programmer, but feel free to help. If you're not a programmer, maybe you can try and work with a programmer to help get some of your ideas implemented. :)

That said, we're getting off-topic. :)

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theborg commented

Voted

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Ole Martin commented

My wote are in for Drupal in all category.
We are the best, aren't We??

Ole Martin
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mrbert commented

Drupal rules............hands down all others!

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Duplika commented

Vote sent...!
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geekglad commented

Drupal is a killer CMS. Count my vote in.

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juanfondu commented

I know everyone has their reasons for their opinions and how they express them, but saying Drupal is toyware when compared to Joomla is not only hilariously misinformed but a huge slight to the clear and obvious amount of forethought that went into Drupal's superior design. Drupal's modularity and extensibility absolutely slays Joomla's "hack a third party <insert thing> into an iframe inside the wrapping theme and claim Joomla made it possible" approach. Joomla is simple for setting up something that looks good, but functionality is a whole other matter. I'll stick with Drupal for all of the projects that require seamless integration, uniformity and extensibility options throughout.