Dear fellow travellers on the great DNN framework,

The following texts can be found on the website of Packtpub, an open source friendly publisher of IT-books on all sorts of subjects including Joomla and DotNetNuke. 

Nominate the Overall Open Source CMS Award Winner

Open Source Content Management System Award, 2008: Nominations Open July 14 We would like you to submit a nomination for what you believe is the best Open Source Content Management System. This category is open for entry to all open source Content Management Systems.

The five CMS's with the most nominations will go through to the final stage of voting, which starts in September.

Nominate the Best Other Open Source CMS

Best Other Open Source Content Management System: Nominations Open July 14 We would like you to submit a nomination for what you believe is the best 'Other' Open Source Content Management System. This category is open for entry to all open source Content Management Systems that are written in languages other than PHP. For example, Java, VB.NET, Perl, etc.

The five CMS's with the most nominations will go through to the final stage of voting in September.

In short, ..... there's a competition going on! And it hasn't gone unnoticed by some contenders: 

Read the Joomla! site:

July 14, 2008 marks the beginning of year three of Packt's friendly competition between world class free software communities for who earns bragging rights to the much coveted 2008 Best Overall Open Source CMS. Not only is this recognition a great way to encourage, support, and reward the incredible efforts of free software communities, but, there is also a nice cash award shared with those projects fortunate enough to win.

The time for the Joomla! community to act is now!

Head over to Packt and nominate Joomla! for the Best Overall Open Source CMS Award and for the Best PHP Open Source CMS. While you are there, check out the new Open Source CMS Most Valuable Player award. Nominate someone who has worked hard to make Joomla! better and has made it easier and more fun for others to get involved.

Help get the word out. Fire up those blogs. Post it on forums. Share it in your newsletters. E-mail your friends. Activate your RSS feeds because nominations begin today and continue until August 25th, 2008. Let's bring home the Best Overall Open Source CMS award for Joomla! in 2008!

Show your support by voting for Joomla! today! Packt Nominations for Open Source CMS Awards Begin Today!

Although with his usual wit and chagrin for the lack of recognition for the best .Net CMS in the world the DotNetNuke overlord Shaun Walker pointed out the competitions relevance as early as 2006 (needless to say DNN has always been the nr. 1. frontrunner) not many communitymembers must have put in their vote since there's no mention of winning any prizes.... 

.. now let's do things different in 2008! Let's give our Php friends some real competition and SEND IN YOUR VOTES, Please! 
And hurry on over to http://www.packtpub.com/nominations

May the best (or most loyal community) win!