SilverStripe

SilverStripe recognised in global software award

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 12 January 2010

Every year Packt Publishing, a tech book publisher, runs a global award for the best open source CMS. In 2009, SilverStripe had its best result yet.

The Packt CMS Award is a major award: many thousands of people around the world rate their favourite CMS, before judges thoroughly evaluate the most popularly voted software. There is no more significant worldwide competition that rates open source or proprietary content management platforms, so we're very proud of our year-on-year progress:

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Have you voted for SilverStripe?

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 28 October 2009

Friday 30 October is the last day that you can vote for SilverStripe CMS in the PacktPub Open Source CMS Awards.

We'd love to get your support, because winning will raise awareness about SilverStripe CMS, and will provide a monetary prize to fund product development work!

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SilverStripe into final of 2009 CMS Awards. Vote now!

Posted by Lee Middleton on 23 September 2009

We're excited to announce that SilverStripe is a finalist for the best Overall Open Source CMS in this year’s PacktPub CMS Awards.

Thanks to everyone who nominated us, we received enough votes to appear in the top five. This is a fantastic result, and one that we’re very proud of.

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Keep Nominating!

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 2 September 2009

Don't forget that the world's open source awards are running right now. As we explained at the start of last month, we'd love for you to nominate SilverStripe by September 11 in these two categories:

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Help SilverStripe grow by nominating us at the Packtpub CMS awards

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 3 August 2009

Today the world's major open source CMS awards opened for 2009. Run by the UK publisher PacktPub, these annual awards provide a $24,000 prize pool and exposure to winning CMS projects. Winning helps to fund new features in our software, and helps us grow our developer and user community.

We'd love your support, by...

• Nominating SilverStripe for the awards, now.
  You can nominate from now until September 11. You may both:
  Nominate us for Best Overall Open Source CMS.
  Nominate us for Best Open Source PHP CMS Award.
  The rules allow you to nominate SilverStripe in both of these two categories.
• Voting for us, soon. The most nominated projects are presented to the public as finalists to vote on. Assuming we get enough votes to be a finalist, you can vote for us from late September until the end of October. A category winner is selected by a judging panel.
  
• Spreading the word! Tell others to nominate now, and later vote, as described above. You can share the following banner to help with this:
  

Win an Apple iPod Nano or Touch for helping out

By nominating or voting for your favourite CMS, you go into a draw to win Apple gear. Three people from the nomination phase will be drawn by PacktPub to win an 8GB iPod Nano, and three people from the voting phase will get an 8GB iPod Touch!

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SilverStripe selected for Web Idol competition

Posted by Sigurd Magnusson on 27 April 2009

SilverStripe will be showcased in an upbeat annual CMS competition at next week's Janus Boye CMS Conference in Philadelphia!

The Web Idol competition is modelled after American Idol and is designed to be both entertaining and informative. It features quick-fire competitive performances and a panel of pithy judging. We get 6 minutes to have a heap of fun—and explain to a voting audience why SilverStripe deserves an outrageously large trophy. Stay tuned!

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