2011 Packt Open Source Awards Nominees

Alongside the .net Awards, Packt Publishing organizes one of the most appreciated and respected Web-related awards event. The company recently made public this year's Open-Source Awards nominees list, and opened the voting period at the same time.

Between September 19th and October 31st, anyone interested can vote for projects nominated in this year's event.

In the main category, Open-Source CMS, a big surprise happened when WordPress didn't get enough votes to be nominated.

Truly surprising, since WordPress is becoming a dominant force in any facet of the web development sector, starting from blogs and through various plugins even up to fully-fledged online stores.

This year's nominees for the Open Source CMS Award include:

Drupal
Joomla
mojoPortal
Plone
SilverStripe


The little sister of the aforementioned category is Most Promising Open Source Project, where projects still under two years old can be nominated. The list includes:

Chamilo LMS
FLOW3
ImpressPages CMS
Nette Framework
SEO Panel


For the Open Source JavaScript Library category everyone expects jQuery to be the winner again, judging that the library is used in over 42% of all the sites on the web. The entire nominees list includes:

Dojo Toolkit
jQuery
Raphael JS
ExtJS (Sencha)
YUI


As every edition, the categories have changed again, this year users being able to vote in three new awards.

Last year there was the Open-Source E-commerce Application Award. This year the category has been expanded to all business and enterprise apps, being renamed the Open-Source Business Applications Award. The nominees are:

Magento
nopCommerce
OpenCart
PrestaShop
SugarCRM


The Open Source Multimedia Software Award is another new category, brought to replace the old 2010 category Open Source Graphics Software. Users can vote for their favorite open-source project that allows them to edit any kind of media file. The nominees include:

Airtime
Blender
GIMP
Inkscape
Krita


This year's completely new award is the Open Source Mobile Toolkits and Libraries category, in which users can vote for:

FoneMonkey
jQuery Mobile
Min3D
PhoneGap
Sencha Touch


We'll get back with the results, after November 7th, in the meantime, you can vote your favorites here.