Packt announce Finalists for 2011 Open Source Awards

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Yesterday, Packt Publishing announced the finalists for their 2011 Open Source Award.   This announcement signals the start of the next stage where the finalists are now open to public vote, which lasts until October 31.

Not all the categories in the award are content management related, but if you have an interest in open source I think you'll find each one of the finalists have a great story to tell. The finalists, listed in alphabetical order across all the categories, are as follows:

Open Source CMS Award

  • Drupal
  • Joomla!
  • mojoPortal
  • Plone
  • SilverStripe

 

Open Source Business Applications

  • Magento
  • NopCommerce
  • OpenCart
  • PrestaShop
  • SugarCRM

 

Most Promising Open Source Project

  • Chamilo
  • FLOW3
  • ImpressPages
  • Nette Framework
  • Seo Panel

 

Open Source Mobile Toolkits and Libraries

  • FoneMonkey
  • jQuery Mobile
  • Min3D
  • PhoneGap
  • Sencha Touch

 

Open Source JavaScript Libraries

  • Dojo Toolkit
  • jQuery
  • Raphael JS
  • Sencha- ExtJS
  • YUI Library

 

Open Source Graphics Software

  • Airtime
  • Blender
  • GIMP
  • Inkscape
  • Krita

Users are invited to vote for their favorite open source projects across all the applicable categories and maximize their chances of winning their share of $24,000. Public votes will be combined with ratings from a panel of Judges with the winners announced on November 7.

In other Awards news, Packt has introduced subcategories to the 2011 Open Source Awards finals for the CMS and JavaScript Library categories. To read more, click here.

Capgemini enters into an alliance with six Open Source vendors

Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced that one of its Dutch subsidiaries, Capgemini Nederland B.V. (“Capgemini”), has entered into an open alliance with six Open Source vendors in the Netherlands. The unique alliance, comprising six best-of-breed vendors, is aimed at providing a single point of contact for Capgemini’s customers who are using Open Source.

KnowledgeTree, SugarCRM and iNet Process Announce Integration

Solution makes KnowledgeTree documents accessible from within SugarCRM

RALEIGH, NC — December 9, 2009 — KnowledgeTree®, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider focusing on affordable document management software, SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, and iNet Process, a European provider of ECM and CRM services, today announced the commercial release of iNetDocs, an application that enables seamless integration between KnowledgeTree and SugarCRM.

With iNetDocs, documents and folders in the KnowledgeTree repository can be searched, browsed and retrieved from within SugarCRM and attached to all of the main modules within the CRM application, including leads, opportunities, contacts and accounts. A tab in the SugarCRM interface acts as a window directly into the repository.

According to Lionel Fernandes, manager at iNet Process, “iNetDocs turns SugarCRM into a complete workspace for the busy CRM professional. It is now possible to conduct most of the day’s work without ever leaving the SugarCRM application. This integration ensures greater collaboration and compliance by incorporating document access and control right into CRM business processes.”

Find the open source survey, Save the doctor

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Here is your chance to help out the academic scholars figure out what open source is all about. Lara Thynne, a PhD candidate at Deakin University Australia, is running a survey to be used in examining the motivation of open source users when it comes to participating in open source projects and using open source software. Ms. Thynne's difficulty is that she is needing around 1500 completed surveys and hasn't quite connected with the open source communities to "get the job done".

I encourage anyone in the open source community to take some time and fill out the survey. Personally, I found the survey interesting by what questions she chose to ask in her survey and maybe more interesting which questions she may have left out of the survey. She claims the survey takes only 5 to 10 minutes, but to be honest it took me a full 15 minutes (maybe I'm just slow). I am not sure how much traffic the server can can handle, so if you can't make a connection right away you might want try again at a later time. The link to the survey is: https://dcarf.deakin.edu.au/surveys/oss/ .

Matt Asay: Better, but not necessarily cheaper

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"It surprises me that some people persist in wanting something for nothing, or next to nothing. Open source is about a superior software development and distribution methodology. It really has nothing to do with cost.

Today, it’s much cheaper. SugarCRM? A fraction of the cost of Salesforce.com, Siebel, etc. MySQL? Pennies on the Oracle dollar."

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