SilverStripe

SilverStripe makes the Deloitte Fast 50!

Posted by Brian on 30 October 2009

We made the Deloitte Fast 50 list for 2009! This means we are one of the 50 fastest-growing companies in New Zealand. Specifically, we're the 37th fastest-growing company, with 190% revenue growth over the past couple years.

This is a big deal for us because it shows that the things we believe in: open source, excellent web user experience, and a focus on the humans who use web technology, are all qualities that are appreciated by the business community.

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Two SilverStripe websites win awards

Posted by Sigurd on 12 May 2009

The National Broadband Map was a winner in the World Summit Awards, chosen from an international field of around 20,000 entrants from 157 countries.

We're very proud of our contribution to this award—our company built the site for the State Services Commission last year. We're also very pleased to see a government project with open APIs and public source code being recognised with such a prestigious award.

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SilverStripe "Most promising open source CMS"

Posted by Sigurd on 30 October 2008

A panel of judges and thousands of voters have put SilverStripe on the global stage today!

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SilverStripe takes home NZ Open Source Award

Posted by Sam on 25 September 2008

Last night, Brian, Sig, and I attended the NZ Open Source Awards.  We were finalists in two categories: Open Source Use in Business and Open Source Software Project.  State Services Commission was also a finalist for the National Broadband Map, which we developed.

We were delighted to win the award for best Open Source Software Project!

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You got us into the CMS award finals. Now vote!

Posted by Sigurd on 30 August 2008

Thanks to everyone who nominated SilverStripe for "most promising open-source CMS" in the Packtpub CMS Awards. We're excited to say that (like last year), we're one of the finalists!

We now need your support, from Monday, to vote for us. If we get in the top three, we'll get a monetary prize which will be used to build up the project! Voting ends October 20.

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TUANZ Innovation Awards 2008

Posted by Sigurd on 29 August 2008

Each year, the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) runs a prestigious awards ceremony to recognise outstanding innovation in technology.

Winners and finalists were congratulated at an event last night at the Auckland Museum Dome. SilverStripe was associated with two categories.

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3 days left to nominate!

Posted by Sigurd on 23 August 2008

Help us to gain exposure and money to further our software in the Open Source CMS Awards!

All you need to do is complete the tiny form below by Monday 25th August. If we are amoung the top five most nominated we get into the finalist round.

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Google Highly Open Participation Awards Ceremony held at the Googleplex

Posted by Sigurd on 17 July 2008

Late last year, Google launched a global software contest for highschool students called the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) contest. The contest boasted some impressive statistics: nearly 400 students around the world contributed a total of about 1000 tasks for ten software projects over a very busy two-month period.

SilverStripe was one of the ten projects in the contest, with tasks by students ranging from translating SilverStripe to other languages, building themes and widgets, testing, and doing presentations to spread the awareness of our software. Much of this work is in use by thousands of SilverStripe sites.

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Start voting from Monday!

Posted by Sigurd on 10 July 2008

The main global awards for our type of software kick off next week, run by U.K. based technical book company, PacktPub.

Starting Monday, we would love your support by nominating us for Most Promising CMS. This category is open to software launched within the last two years and best suits SilverStripe.

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Vote in New Zealand Open Source Awards

Posted by Sigurd on 4 June 2008

The New Zealand Open Source Awards have recently re-opened.

We love open source, and think these awards are doing a great job of raising public awareness and opinions about open source.

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