Yesterday, Packt Publishing announced the finalists for their 2011 Open Source Award. This announcement signals the start of the next stage where the finalists are now open to public vote, which lasts until October 31.
Not all the categories in the award are content management related, but if you have an interest in open source I think you'll find each one of the finalists have a great story to tell. The finalists, listed in alphabetical order across all the categories, are as follows:
Open Source CMS Award
- Drupal
- Joomla!
- mojoPortal
- Plone
- SilverStripe
Open Source Business Applications
- Magento
- NopCommerce
- OpenCart
- PrestaShop
- SugarCRM
Most Promising Open Source Project
- Chamilo
- FLOW3
- ImpressPages
- Nette Framework
- Seo Panel
Open Source Mobile Toolkits and Libraries
- FoneMonkey
- jQuery Mobile
- Min3D
- PhoneGap
- Sencha Touch
Open Source JavaScript Libraries
- Dojo Toolkit
- jQuery
- Raphael JS
- Sencha- ExtJS
- YUI Library
Open Source Graphics Software
- Airtime
- Blender
- GIMP
- Inkscape
- Krita
Users are invited to vote for their favorite open source projects across all the applicable categories and maximize their chances of winning their share of $24,000. Public votes will be combined with ratings from a panel of Judges with the winners announced on November 7.
In other Awards news, Packt has introduced subcategories to the 2011 Open Source Awards finals for the CMS and JavaScript Library categories.