David Mudrak's blog

I just nominated my favourite open source projects for 2010 Open Source Awards launched by Packt Publishing. The award has been previously known as the Open Source CMS Award and now in its fifth year, it aims wider range of open source projects – though it mainly focuses on content management systems still. The Awards are split up into two main stages. Nominations started on August 9 so now there is a chance to put forward your favourite Open Source project in each category. The top five projects with the most nominations in each category will go through to the final stage of voting. The nominations will end on September 17. The five finalists in each category will be announced and voting will begin on September 27. Voting will close on November 5, with the winners announced the week commencing November 15.
In the category Open Source CMS, I have nominated CMS Made Simple. They use it as web publishing system at the high school I taught and it works fine for that purpose. From the options in Hall of Fame CMS, I have chosen WordPress. I use it for this blog and I really like its modularity and one-click auto-upgrading feature. More easier it is to keep the server up-to-date, the more secured it is. I would really like to see this auto-update feature implemented in Moodle. In the category Most Promising Open Source Project, I finally decided for MariaDB. Although I switched to PostgreSQL long time ago and never regretted it, I wish MySQL folks some trustworthy open source implementation of their favourite database system. For Open Source JavaScript Libraries, I decided for YUI, the JavaScript framework running behind most of the new Moodle UI cool features. And finally, I wish Inkscape to receive the award in the category Open Source Graphics Software. It is really cool.
As Dan Marsden noticed in his blog, Moodle does not seem eligible for any of the categories. But I am sure it is worth providing the feedback like this to the open source projects I use and like. I know from my own experience that every single nice word from the community counts and helps to keep the project running. Many thanks to all of you who give us such great tools.