2010 Open Source Awards Results

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

Winners

Open CMS

Any CMS (content management system) based on the 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

CMS Hall of Fame

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

The most promising Open Source project

Open source projects with the first release date no earlier than two years before 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

Open Ecommerce Application

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

Open source graphics software

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

JavaScript Open 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 functionality. The winner in this category was the jQuery library.
Winner: jQuery
2nd place divided between Mootools and Raphaël.

Prizes

The cash prizes in each category are:
Winner: $ 2,500
2nd place: $ 1,000
3rd place: $ 500

Amazon Kindle receives Juan Manuel Romero Martin.

2010 Open Source Awards Rules

1. Only content management systems, e-commerce applications, graphics software and JavaScript libraries, available under Open Source licenses, are eligible to participate.
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 fall into.
4. The same project cannot simultaneously win the nomination “Open CMS” or “Hall of Fame CMS” and “Most Promising CMS”.
5. Winners in the general CMS category of previous years cannot participate in the Open CMS category in 2010. Winners of past contests compete with each other in the CMS Hall of Fame category.
6. Projects available under the Open Sourc license, with a first release date no earlier than two years before August 9, 2010, are allowed to participate in the "Most Promising Open Source Project" category. Projects that participated in the 2009 contest in the “Most Promising CMS” category and meet the criteria for participating in the 2010 contest in the “Most Promising Open Source Project” category are eligible.
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 a vote of visitors to www.packtpub.com .
9. The winner is determined by the number of points awarded. The project, determined by the voter as the best, gets 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 event of a tie an additional independent judge shall be called.
11. All judges are independent and their decisions are final.
12. Packt Publishing has no influence on the determination of finalists and contest winners.
13. The person who won the Amazon Kindle is randomly determined and is notified directly from Packt.

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

PS Translated by aestero .