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ImpressCMS - One Of The Most Promising! Published by Tom on 2008/10/30 (6180 reads)

The results are in, the judges have spoken and it's now official.

ImpressCMS is ranked the 3rd most promising in the world!

Before we get to self involved marvelling at our own success, patting ourselves on the back and thanking the community, I feel it's important that we first step back and take the time to also congratulate others.

MVP - Most Valued People

First of all, let us congratulate the 24 people who were nominate as MVP's at this years Packt Awards:

Ted Kulp - CMS Made Simple.
Kai-Sven Bunk - DBHcms.
Shaun Walker - DotNetNuke.
Earl Miles - Drupal.
Adam Kessler - Exponent CMS.
Michael Boyink - ExpressionEngine.
Marc-Andre Lanciault - ImpressCMS.
Johan Janssens - Joomla!
Lynne Pope - Mambo.
Miltenovik Manojlo - MemHT-Portal.
Chad Auld - MiaCMS.
Jason Coward - modx CMS.
Joe Audette - mojoPortal.
Nick Jones - PHP Fusion.
Martin Aspelli - Plone.
Sean Cribbs - Radiant.
Sam Minnee - SilverStripe.
Marc Laporte - Tikiwiki.
Jonathan Naumann - ToendaCMS.
Dmitry Dulepov - TYPO3.
Leo Feyer - Typolight.
Doug Robar - Umbraco.
Matt Mullenweg - WordPress.
Onokazu - Xoops.

2008 Best Other Open Source CMS

Congratulations to Plone who took first place, dotCMS who took second and DotNetNuke who took third.

Also congratulations to mojoPortal and Umbraco who made the finals but sadly didn't come in the top three, you've made it this far and thats all that matters!

2008 Best PHP Based Open Source CMS Announced

Congratulations to Drupal who took first place, Joomla! and CMS Made Simple who where tied in second place. You guys really do lead the way, you lead by example and do some outstanding work. This award is well deserved and we look forward to seeing you in this category soon!

Commiserations to eZPublish and XOOPS, but congratulations on making the finals it's the taking part that counts and not always the winning.

2008 Most Promising Open Source CMS

This was our category and we felt proud to make it into the finals, we always said it didn't matter if we win or not, it's the taking part that really matters and the fact we'd made it that far. We just wanted a fair vote from our commity and that we feel we had.

Silver Stripe took first place this year followed by CMS Made Simple who have now taken a leading position in two categories, thats fantastic work guys, congratulations on that!

We were joint third with another amazing project, MiaCMS.

Overall Open Source CMS Award

We're still awaiting the results of this category which will be announced by Packt Publishing tomorrow, although we're not in this category we will make an announcement with the results.

We'd just like to take this opportunity to again thank Packt Publishing for this honour and also to congratulate all the Open Source projects taking part in this years Packt Publishing Awards. Open source is about freedom and choice amongst many other things and this competition does wonders for getting amazing projects seen.

Our Community

We'd also like to take this opportunity once again to thank our whole community for being involved, working as a team, a family and in an open and collaborative way. We'd like to thank you for your votes of support and confidence.

2009 Will bring us closer to our aims with ImpressCMS and it's you, our community that is our driving force!

THANK YOU!!!

To find out what Packt Publishing are saying about the first place winners this year, check out their website: http://www.packtpub.com/award

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JMorris
Posted: 2008/10/30 9:40  Updated: 2008/10/30 9:40
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I'm glad to see that respect is being given where it is due. In some way or another, I've worked with most of the above systems, either in testing or in production. All of which are outstanding systems in their own rights, and are well deserving of their recognition. ImpressCMS is in very good company to be listed among such systems.

That this community has banded together and has achieved such recognition in less than a year is nothing short of Impressive!

Kudos to all of the MVPs and OSS Projects who made these lists this year. These are the people driving innovation and who are paving the way for freedom in the web application space.

Congrats!
andreas
Posted: 2008/10/30 10:42  Updated: 2008/10/30 10:42
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Congratulations for the project and to all the impresscms community
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Posted: 2008/10/30 11:16  Updated: 2008/10/30 11:42
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Congratz all Team


Here you will see some of the employees who have enabled this version come to you. It was a very big job with the participation of several persons, each with its way of contributing, but with all its great importance. Some participated in more than one sector helping the best you can.


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Tom
Posted: 2008/10/30 11:38  Updated: 2008/10/30 11:42
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Don't forget PR & Marketing Giba ;-)
I would just like to add a note from Packt Publishing, this was issued to me via E-mail from Packt Publishing:
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ImpressCMS came joint third! The judges were really impressed with the large amount of developer work going with the CMS and that it's heading in the right direction following the fork. They expect big things :) The judges found it a really difficult process this year and as such it was difficult to split ImpressCMS and MiaCMS, with you finishing joint third.
Vaughan
Posted: 2008/10/30 12:43  Updated: 2008/10/30 12:43
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yes great work everyone :) It's been great working with you all & learning from each other. I'm impressed that we achieved this in light of the competition. MiaCMS being a mambo fork etc. and usually we have fell behind the mambo/joomla statistics with xoops, so it's a good achievement overall to be joint 3rd with such a powerful system to start with.


Silverstripe is very clean from what i saw of it's demo, i haven't installed it at all, but none the less, the demo site was very tidy & i liked some of the admin section, it was presentable and easy to navigate.  I certainly think we can improve ourselves by taking notes of our strong and weak points, and then build up on those like the other CMS's have.


3rd place has made my year so far, it's an achievement that we have all worked so hard for.
Will
Posted: 2008/10/30 15:19  Updated: 2008/10/30 15:19
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A fantastic start. Lets keep the momentum up for 1.2!
UnderDog
Posted: 2008/10/30 17:05  Updated: 2008/10/30 17:05
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Congrats to us all.
We've worked hard and we've worked together. As a community we made third place which is a great achievement.
Ronaldus
Posted: 2008/10/30 17:54  Updated: 2008/10/30 17:54
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A truly great achievement in its first year!!

Congrats to all who contributed and especially the devs !!

Next year first place for ImpressCMS!!
thomas
Posted: 2008/10/30 21:55  Updated: 2008/10/30 21:55
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Way to go Impress! Much deserved because all of you have worked so hard on this project. Congrads this is outstanding news!
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Posted: 2008/10/31 12:06  Updated: 2008/10/31 12:06
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Congrats everyone involved in this project

This means we are on the good rail and we need to go further this way to achieve better places!

Good work every body, specially Marcan ;-)
debianus
Posted: 2008/10/31 15:39  Updated: 2008/10/31 15:39
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In few months we have had this award; we are on the way.