Time to Get Your Vote in For the 2010 Packt Open Source Awards

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

Cast Your Vote

We highlighted the sections for this US$ 24,000 open source CMS contest last month. Now the candidates have been announced and are ready for the final vote. Who will get your choice as the deadline of November 5 looms. Up for the open source CMS award are:

• CMS Made Simple (news, site)
• MODx (news, site)
• mojoPortal (news, site)
• SilverStripe (news, site)
• XOOPS (news, site)

While in the most promising open source category, which applies to projects that have been running for less than two years, we have:

• BuddyPress
• LiveStreet CMS
• Pimcore
• Tomato CMS
• WolfCMS

Save the Date

Up for the Hall of Fame award are the usual suspects; Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. While there are additional categories for e-commerce software, JacaScript library and graphics software.

The final announcements will be made on November 5, with your votes combined with that of a judging panel to decide the winners. One delighted voter will pick up an Amazon Kindle, so there's no reason not to join in the ballot.