By gdemet on

2009 Open Source CMS AwardPackt Publishing, the company behind many well-known Drupal books, holds an annual Open Source CMS Award that recognizes open source content management platforms and their communities. In addition to bragging rights, winners also receive financial support for their projects in the form of cash prizes. Drupal has historically done very well in this competition, winning the overall award for the last two years running, as well as Best PHP Open Source Content Management System in last year's competition. This record of success is a tribute to the strength and passion of the Drupal community, as the awards are partially decided by popular vote.

In fact, Drupal has done so well in past years that the organizers of this year's award have retired it from eligibility for the overall award, instead pitting it against Joomla! in an all-new Hall of Fame category. In addition, they've created a Drupal Award to allow community members to vote fortheir favorite modules and themes. And if that wasn't enough, Drupal is also eligible for the Best Open Source PHP CMS award. All told, around $6,000 in prize money is at stake.

How can you help Drupal win again this year? Just go to Packt Publishing's Open Source CMS Award Web site before October 30 and cast your vote in the following categories:

And to provide a little extra incentive, three voters who go to the site and fill out a brief survey will also win a free iPod Touch.

Show your support for Drupal and vote today!

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Ole Martin’s picture

Ole Martin commented

1 Drupal
2 Drupal

As always ;-)

edgar saumell’s picture

edgar saumell commented

The survey is currently closed...

mypharm’s picture

mypharm commented

"2 points goes" to DRUPAL from Greece-Hellas

:)

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drupaloSa commented

It seems that Drupal and Joomla are now competing in their very own league :)

lelizondo’s picture

lelizondo commented

didn't like views vs. cck.. I wish I could vote for both..

Luis

vinoth.3v’s picture

vinoth.3v commented

yes,

missed panels?

--DONE--

Vinoth - வினோத்

lelizondo’s picture

lelizondo commented

and og and like a hundred very cool modules

Luis

Petrica’s picture

Petrica commented

Drupal forever

Blue’s picture

Blue commented

Drupal RulzZz !

tekila’s picture

tekila commented

I love drupal. Will bring the AWARD home!

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

There is as well a MVP category.

I casted my vote for a kind Drupal person from the 'shop management', obviously. Pity I could not vote for the full bunch, but such is life.

Gustavo

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steveadamo commented

I didnt realize this option was available...

Otherwise, voted Drupal all the way! :)

Blue2000’s picture

Blue2000 commented

I voted for Drupal! Thanks everyone for Drupal!

slashwalk’s picture

slashwalk commented

Drupal rocks baby!

askmahesh’s picture

askmahesh commented

Voted for Drupal all the way.

Tchou’s picture

Tchou commented

Good morning,

I saw that Adyax took out a module of integration between Drupal and Magento, have you of information over?

duntuk’s picture

duntuk commented

voted drupal... yeaya

radj’s picture

radj commented

i heart drupal.

zoia’s picture

zoia commented

Just voted- Apart from the results Drupal is the winner

slashwalk’s picture

slashwalk commented

Help spread the word! Tweet this so people can know about it and vote!

follow me on twitter: twitter.com/slashwalk

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betoaveiga
Primary language Spanish
Location Daule, Guayas
commented

Es difícil decidir cuál módulo de Drupal es el mejor. Quizás existen unos cuantos en el grupo de los mejores, y esos cuantos sin casi casi indispensables.

El mejor tema en mi opinión es Zen, sin lugar a dudas.

Saludos a todos!
Luis Aveiga

Drupal Backend / Frontend Developer

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sp_key commented

How does it work?
I don't get it - I've never actually used any other CMSs which makes my vote totally irrelevant right?

deadale’s picture

deadale commented

hey, would have wanted to vote but dont know how..
how does it work??

sp_key’s picture

sp_key commented

I understand how it works mate.
I'm just making a point that I find it a very subjective voting mechanism that anyone can vote without even having tried the other products.
I don't know whether the winner depends on who we as users vote but if that's the case then it has no validity to me - just voting for the prize cash.

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gdemet
he/him
Primary language English
Location Chicago, USA
commented

My understanding is that the public vote is intended to demonstrates the relative strength of each CMS's communities, as opposed to acting as an objective measure of the quality of each CMS. I believe that the public vote is factored heavily in the final result, but it is not the sole criteria used.

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lelizondo commented

No, the fact you've never used any other CMS means you found the best CMS without having to explore all the options out there. You should try Joomla, WP, Typo3, Xoops, all the nuke(s) for about 2 hours each just to love even more drupal.

I've tried all of them and the last one was drupal, that was 3 years ago, I looked no more. I installed Joomla 2 months ago to see if they fixed all the things that made me move to drupal, just to see it's the same crap.

So your vote just means you've just save yourself months of looking for the best CMS.

Luis

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hectorplus commented

i voted prior to publishing this post, we'll win for sure.

http://tecito.com

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cssdru commented

I have tried Nukes, Xoops, Joomla, Wordpress.. (it took me years)..and when I discovered Drupal, I felt in love with it!

My votes went to Drupal of course!

Designing Drupal
www.azridesign.com

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asifnoor commented

Voted for drupal

vinoth.3v’s picture

vinoth.3v commented

Award announced... :)

http://www.packtpub.com/award

Vinoth - வினோத்