SigEx Telecom :Nominations opened for the '07 Open Source CMS Awardsby Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

Joomla! was declared winner of Packt’s 2006 Open Source CMS, riding the wave of 72 nominations and 15,000 votes.Now the Awards are back,the nominations are now open and the question is who will win oper source gold? This year`s ceremony is boasting both a higher stake in prize cash and fresh new categories, slightlt different from last year. The winning fund is US $20,000 and open source contenders can compete for the following new titles:Best social networking CMS, Best open source PHP CMS, Best other open source CMS, Most promising open source CMS and Overall Winner. The Open Source CMS Award was firstly developed to encourage and recognize an open source CMS selected by a set of judges and visitors. But this year, instead of put the light on the talents of just one, Packt has sought to recognize other achievements in the ever-broadening open source world. Marketing Manager Damian Carvill said “For this year’s Awards, we wanted to support and give more exposure to a broader range of open source Content Management Systems.We received a fantastic response to last year’s Award and it confirmed our view that there is an impressive number of professional level open source Content Management Systems with large and enthusiastic communities.” The five winners will devide the $20,000 prize.The overall winner receives US$ 5,000, with second and third places receiving US$ 3,000 and US$ 2,000, respectively and the other two winners will get US$ 2,000 each.There is a rumour that there will also be opportunities to win an iPod Nano.

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.