A hugely popular CMS platform has been left out in the rain this year

Sep 21, 2011 18:04 GMT  ·  By

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.