Congratulations to the Winners of Packt Publishing’s 2010 Open Source Awards!
Last week, Packt Publishing announced the winners of the 2010 Open Source Awards. This year Packt expanded the scope of the awards from a Content Management System (CMS)-only affair to add new categories for “Most Promising Open Source Project,” “Open Source Graphics Software,” “Open Source E-Commerce Applications” and “Open Source JavaScript Libraries.”
We were lucky enough to be able to sponsor the “Most Promising Open Source Project” award category, where pimcore emerged as the overall winner and was awarded $2,500. TomatoCMS and BuddyPress were the first and second runners up and were awarded $1,000 and $500 in prize money respectively. Our earnest congratulations go out to them and to the two other finalists, Wolf CMS and LiveStreet CMS. In the coming weeks, I’ll be conducting a video interview with Dietmar Rietsch, the founder of pimcore (and whoever else from the team he wants to bring along), so be on the lookout for it.
Congratulations to all the other projects that were nominated too. It’s exciting to see so many great open source projects gain recognition for all the hard work they put into providing awesome software to the world at large. The awards wouldn’t be possible without all the people who make up the communities and support the projects, so thanks to everyone who took the time to vote as well.
It’s been a pleasure working with Packt on the awards and we look forward to doing it again in 2011. Be sure to check out the full list of winners on Packt’s site.
Viva la open source! :)
Dr. Apps
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Interview with John of BuddyPress, Most Promising Open Source Project Finalist
Today, I was lucky enough to have John of BuddyPress chime in on the project and why they deserve your vote for Most Promising Open Source Project in the 2010 Packt Publishing Open Source Awards.
Dr. Apps: Since this category is for projects less than two years old, how does it feel to be recognized by the community as one of the most promising open source projects?
John: Pretty awesome! BuddyPress has come a long way, and we have a ton of neat things in store for its future.
D: How do you feel about BuddyPress being a finalist for Most Promising Open Source Project?
J: I’ve always felt very proud and fortunate to be part of the BuddyPress community and development team, so it was a lot more of that same warm and fuzziness. Recognition of a job well done always feels good.
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Interview with Dietmar of pimcore, Most Promising Open Source Project Finalist
It’s another day and time for another awesome interview with a finalist for the Most Promising Open Source Project category of Packt’s 2010 Open Source Awards. This time I had the pleasure of interviewing Dietmar from pimcore. Read on to find out why Dietmar believes pimcore deserves your vote.
Dr. Apps: Since this award category is for projects less than two years old, how does it feel to be recognized by the community as one of the most promising open source projects?
Dietmar: Amazing, simply amazing. Since pimcore is not even a full year old, it’s an even greater privilege for us, being recognized as one of the most promising open source projects. All of this would not have been possible without the great support and enthusiasm of our community. Thanks to everyone who voted for pimcore.
Dr: For people that don’t know about pimcore, can you briefly explain what it is?
Di: Basically, pimcore is a powerful and robust Zend Framework-based PHP content management system for creating and managing digital content and assets. With pimcore
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