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The 2010 Packt Awards (news, site) are looming, who are you going to vote for?

Welcome to the October installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Don't forget that the Packt Publishing (news, site) 2010 Open Source Awards are open for voting as well!

If you listen to some experts, apps are the way of the future. Mobile applications and web applications will rule the world.

At Liferay (news, site) West Coast Symposium, LEVEL Studios' Technology Strategist Chris Stavros shared strategies for building dynamic, successful web sites and applications.

There's a lot of activity in the open source portal space lately. Today eXo (news, site) released eXo Platform 3.0, the latest version of their Java-based enterprise portal offering. Let's take a look at what it has to offer.

The Liferay (news, site) developers catch their breaths from releasing Liferay 6 Enterprise Edition. Still, even as they launch the new product, they already have in mind many of the key features destined for 6.1.

Among the talks at Liferay (news, site) West Coast Symposium was one on best practices for project managers. While Liferay Director of Business Development Ed Chung focused on his company's product, much of his advice holds true in a broader sense. Especially for those using any open source software and in the world of website and intranet development.

At its Liferay West Coast Symposium, open source portal vendor Liferay (news, site) announced its latest release. Let's take a look at Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise.

Plone 4 (news, site) not only ramps up on features but also paves the way for future releases that will offer even more.

Welcome to the September installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

MediaCore (news, site) adds HTML 5 to offer fully compatible video on iPhone, iPad and other devices.

German web content management vendor Innovation Gate Gmbh decided earlier this year to rebrand version 5 of their Java-based product as open source. Let's take a look at what they're offering and where it fits.

You might recall that in our Open Source Alert at the end of July we mentioned that Squiz (news, site)  said it was working on something top secret.

The secret is out. Squiz is joining the Web Engagement Management (WEM) bandwagon. 

It's great that open source offers flexibility and so much more. However, managing the licensing structure is confusing for many developers who incorporate or interact with open source code. The Linux Foundation (news, site) recently released a program to help chart your way through sometimes choppy waters.

Something for nothing is always a good thing. And that’s exactly what Mono Software is offering with the release of v3.0 of its MonoX content management system that focuses principally on adding social networking features to previous versions.

Never one to slow down it seems, DotNetNuke (news, site) has some new capabilities across its range of open source web content management editions, and a new edition altogether.

CMS Made Simple (news, site) Web CMS keeps rolling out the updates to its growing audience that recently hit the seven-figure mark.

It's that time again. Packt Publishing (news, site) has launched their fifth annual awards, but they've changed things up a bit this year.

Webiva is yet another content management system that aims to give the likes of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal some competition. The difference? In addition to being an open source, Ruby on Rails system, Webiva comes packed with a SaaS hosting platform that cuts out a ton of management hassle. 

If your working life revolves around the release date of software products, then you just gotta love open source Web CMS provider Tiki (news, site). Not only have they released v5.1 of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, they have also announced a date for the release of v6.0 and given us a good idea of what will be in v7.0.

Looking for a CMS that's just a little bit different, why not give the latest version of open source Weceem, a new upcoming Grails-powered CMS a go.