Through 2 rounds of The Most Promising Open Source Project Award 2010, TomatoCMS was choosen which was 1st runner up of Most Promising Open Source Project.

See the result at http://www.packtpub.com/blog/the-2010-op....

Let's try to know why TomatoCMS was choosen.

Packt Publishing announced that Pimcore has won the Most Promising Open Source Project Award category in the 2010 Open Source Awards. The Most Promising Open Source Project Award  is a revamped category for the Award this year, featuring Open Source projects, whose first release date is less than two years from 9 August, 2010.

“Winning this Award is a huge boost”, said Dietmar Rietsch, the founding member of Pimcore. “It’s not simply about the money either, it’s the recognition of a year of hard work and dedication from the team and Pimcore’s community.”

“Pimcore is an exciting content management system framework which has great long-term prospects. The project is growing at a fast rate and has good support from its community.” Added Marc Delisle, system administrator and one of the judges for the 2010 Most Promising Open Source Project category. “Pimcore is an easy to use new solution and a high sense of professionalism can be found in everything from the project website to the documentation.”

While Pimcore occupied the top spot in the 2010 Most Promising Open Source Project category, TomatoCMS came in at the first runners up position, while the second runners up position was secured by social networking software package BuddyPress.

With this announcement, the 2010 Open Source Awards has five more categories left, including the Open Source Graphics Software category, for which results will be announced from November 16th through to November 19th.

For detailed results on each category and more information about the Award, please visit Packt's Open Source Awards site.

Now, TomatoCMS is chosen to final, voting round of Open Source Award.

All finalist products for Most Promising Open Source Project are:

• BuddyPress
• LiveStreet CMS
• Pimcore
• TomatoCMS
• WolfCMS

How to vote for TomatoCMS

The voting round starts on 27th, September and close on 5th, November. It's easy to vote for TomatoCMS. Just go to https://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/v... and:

• Select TomatoCMS in the Choose the project you would like to win section.
• Leave your name in the Your name field,
• and leave your email address in the Your email field (Please use the real email address)
• Finally, don't forget to press the Submit button.

Please help TomatoCMS win this award! The voting will close on 5th, November. And then top 3 of most voted projects will be considered by the judges to decide which one wins the award.

Love TomatoCMS, Vote TomatoCMS

Packt Publishing recently announced the finalists in each of the categories for their 2010 Open Awards. While award categories for content management systems are still included, this year Packt is also adding additional flavors of open source projects to be judged. The new award categories include awards for most promising open source project, e-commerce applications, graphics software, and JavaScript libraries.

The Voting for the winners in each of the categories ends on November 5, 2010.  This "public vote" will then be combined with votes by a panel of judges in each category to be announced on November 15, 2010.

This year, I will once again be participating as a judge for the Open Source CMS Award. I'll be in good company on this panel and have been a long time admirer of the work done by OpenSourceCMS's Scott Goodwin and CMS Wire's Dee-Ann LeBlanc. Karen Koombs, librarywebchic.net, is a new name to me and I'm looking forward to getting to know her better via this panel. There is always some controversy in these type awards on whether those projects awarded are really "the best" in their category. I plan to give my perspective on these awards in a separate blog post.

The following projects make up the finalist of the 2010 Open Source Awards:

Open Source CMS Award

Every Content Management System (CMS) that is based on one of the Open Source licenses is eligible to participate for this category. Vote for your favorite Open Source CMS here.

Finalists:

• CMS Made Simple
• MODx
• mojoPortal
• SilverStripe
• XOOPS

Hall of Fame CMS

This category is reserved for those CMSes that have won the Overall Open Source CMS Award at least once in the past. Vote for your favorite Hall of Fame CMS here.

Finalists

• Drupal
• Joomla!
• WordPress

Most Promising Open Source Project

This category is for all Open Source projects, whose first release date is less than two years from 9 August, 2010. Vote for your favorite Most Promising Open Source Project here.

Finalists

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

TomatoCMS is free and open source CMS which stands for Content Management System. Every years, there is an award for all of open source content management systems around the world held by the Packt Publishing.

In this year, TomatoCMS will participate this award in the category of Most Promising Open Source Project.

If you haven't heard about TomatoCMS, here is some places you can find the information:

• Official website: http://www.tomatocms.com
• Live Demo: http://demo.tomatocms.com
• Docs: http://docs.tomatocms.com
• Forum: http://forum.tomatocms.com

Please give TomatoCMS a change of winning this award by spending your 15 seconds to nominate it. And, please recommend your friends to do it.

The nominations will end on September 17.

How to nominate TomatoCMS

It is very easy to nominate. Just go to http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/nominate-most-promising-open-source-project, then:

• Enter TomatoCMS to the Name of project field
• Enter http://www.tomatocms.com to the URL of project
• Put your name and your email (please use real email address) to Your name and Your email fields, respectively.
• Finally, don't forget to press the Submit button.

Please help TomatoCMS win this award. The nomination only takes you 15 seconds!

The top 5 nominations will be chosen to the voting round.