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Welcome to the August 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.

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

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Welcome to the June 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.

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

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

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

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Normally in this space we look back over the current month and forward into the next month at what the various open source CMS projects are up to. But rather than blindly putting out an update for January, we thought we'd look farther ahead into what everyone wants to accomplish throughout next year. Call it our open source 2010 predictions with less guesswork and high hopes.

It's that time again -- Packt (news, site) is announcing the winners of its Open Source CMS Awards. The lucky ones are narrowed down via community voting, and then judges make the final evaluations. Throughout this week we'll find out who won in each of the 4 categories:

1. Best Other Open Source CMS -- Congrats to the Plone (news, site) project for retaining last year's title!
2. Best Open Source PHP CMS -- Congrats to Drupal who's win was announced this morning.
3. Most Promising Open Source CMS -- Coming November 11, 2009.
4. Best Overall Open Source CMS -- Coming November 13, 2009.

Runners up for 2009's Best Other Open Source CMS are dotCMS (news, site) and mojoPortal (news, site). The winning projects receive prize money as well, $2000 to Plone and $500 each for dotCMS and mojoPortal. Previous winners for this category include Plone's 2008 win and mojoPortal in 2007.

Those who made Packt's 2009 Open Source CMS Most Valued People list were also announced. the list includes:

• Robert Campbell for CMS Made Simple (news, site) 
• Dries Buytaert for Drupal (news, site) 
• Louis Landry for Joomla! (news, site) 
• Ryan thrash for MODx (news, site) 
• Joe Audette for mojoPortal (news, site) 
• Kasper Skaarhoj for TYPO3 (news, site) 
• Leo Feyer for TYPOlight (news, site) 
• Taiwen Jiang for XOOPS (news, site) 

List members were nominated by the developers and community of each project.

[Editor's Note: Check out our 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share report for details on the 20 most popular open source content management systems.]

Welcome to the November 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

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Welcome to the October 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

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With the release of mojoPortal 2.3.1.6 (news, site), this simple CMS has focused principally on upgrading its image editing abilities with TinyMCE and FCKeditor WYSIWYG features.

The upgrade from the North Carolina-based company is focused on the optional ability to automatically resize images for the web or, in the case where images are already web-ready, the ability to turn this feature off.

For people working in companies that have a web department, but their principal business is not web development, this will be particularly welcome. Especially for content managers who have to explain to their less web-savvy colleagues that a 10MB image is just not going to cut the cloth.

Is 2008 the year of the single person? One can only hope. Besides being unattached, it turns out that we singletons are quite the demographic.

Two browser-related stories broke while you were all making merry over the festive season.
Microsoft, under pressure from agitated developers, finally took steps to ensure compliance for IE8 with web standards, breaking long-held traditions.

Then AOL quietly announced that Netscape was being cut loose to pass into the cold hereafter, as they announced the end of support for the once-preeminent browser marque which introduced the world to the Web.

With the open source cms market being dominated by PHP/MySQL based solutions, our friends at Packt Publishing are recognizing content management systems written in other languages

Thus with no further adieu, we congratulate mojoPortal for being named Best Other Open Source CMS for 2007.

mojoPortal is written in C# and runs under ASP.Net on Windows or under Mono on Linux and MacOS.

mojoPortal sports an impressive list features including:

• XHTML Compliant Content Management
• MyPage Personalization with WebParts
• Blogs
• Forums
• Event Calendar
• Image Gallery
• File Manager
• Authentication against the database, Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Open ID, or Windows Live ID
• An Interchangeable data access layer with support for MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, FirebirdSql
• Skinnable Design
• RSS Feed Aggregator
• Search
• Localization
• Ability to host multiple sites on 1 installation and 1 database
• Easily Customizable User Profile

If that list doesn’t impress you, maybe the fact that mojoPortal beat out both Plone and Silva to win first place will.

The official announcement from Packt Publishing can be found here, and more information about mojoPortal can be found on the official website.