Results of Open Source Awards 2010

The Open Source Awards is a competition whose goal is to encourage, support, recognize and reward open source projects.
The best open source projects were determined taking into account the votes of the resource visitors and the ratings put up by the jury of the competition.
Packt Publishing has no influence on the determination of the finalists and winners of the competition.

Winners

Open CMS

Any CMS (Content Management System) based on an open source license could participate in this category. In 2010, the winner was CMS Made Simple.
Winner : CMS Made Simple
2nd place: Silverstripe
3rd place: MODx

Hall of Fame CMS

Only CMS that won prizes at least once over the past years could participate in this category. Wordpress ranked first in this category. *
Winner: Wordpress
2nd place: Drupal
3rd place: Joomla!
* Since a draw was initially established between Wordpress and Drupal, additional independent judge Mark King invited the deciding vote.

The most promising open source project

Open source projects with the first release date no earlier than two years prior to August 9, 2010 were allowed to participate in this category. The winner in this category was the Pimcore project.
Winner: Pimcore
2nd place: TomatoCMS
3rd place: BuddyPress
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Open e-commerce application

This category is intended for projects that simplify the purchase and sale of goods via the Internet. The winner in this category was PrestaShop.
Winner: PrestaShop
2nd place: OpenCart
3rd place: TomatoCart

Open graphics software

This category included open source software products designed for graphic design, multimedia development, general or specialized image creation and editing, or simply for accessing graphic files. The winner in this category was Blender.
Winner: Blender
2nd place: GIMP
3rd place: InkScape

Open javascript libraries

JavaScript libraries could participate in this category — libraries of ready-made JavaScript controls for developing RIA (Rich Internet Applications), visually enhanced applications, or improved server-side JavaScript. The winner in this category was the jQuery library.
Winner: jQuery
2nd place is shared between Mootools and Raphaël.

Prizes

Cash prizes in each category are as follows:
Winner: $ 2,500
2nd place: $ 1,000
3rd place: $ 500

Amazon Kindle gets Juan Manuel Romero Martin.

Open Source Awards 2010 Rules

1. Only content management systems, e-commerce applications, graphics software and JavaScript libraries available under Open Source licenses participate in the competition.
2. One person can nominate one project in each category.
3. The five projects that received the largest number of nominations go to the finals of each category, except for the CMS Hall of Fame category, which only winners of the general CMS category of previous years enter.
4. The same project can not simultaneously win the nomination "Open CMS" or "Hall of Fame CMS" and "The most promising CMS".
5. Winners in the general category "CMS" of past years can not participate in the category "Open CMS" in 2010. Winners of past competitions compete with each other in the CMS Hall of Fame category.
6. To participate in the category "The most promising Open Source-project" are allowed projects that are available under the license of Open Sourc, with the date of the first release no earlier than two years before August 9, 2010. Projects that participated in the 2009 contest in the category “The most promising CMS” and meet the criteria for participation in the 2010 contest in the category “The most promising Open Source-project” are allowed to participate.
7. In the final stage of voting, one person can vote only once.
8. Candidates for the first three places are determined by the jury. The final result will be determined by vote of visitors to the site www.packtpub.com .
9. The winner is determined by the number of points awarded. The draft, determined by the voting participant as the best, receives three points, as the second - two points, as the third - one point. The winner will be the project with the most points.
10. In the case of nobody, an additional independent judge is called.
11. All judges are independent, and their decisions are final.
12. Packt Publishing has no influence on the determination of the finalists and winners of the competition.
13. The person who wins the Amazon Kindle is randomly identified and notified of this directly from Packt.

Information about the jury of the Open Source Awards 2010 can be found here .

PS Translated by aestero .