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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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Two Years of Open Source Goodness

Posted by Brian on 1 October 2008

As we approach the two-year anniversary of releasing our software under an open source license, I thought I'd write a bit about where we see things going. BTW, the official birthday of our open source software is 10 October 2006. Not sure how we're going to celebrate, but it's a safe bet there will be beer involved.

What's been different than expected over the past two years?

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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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New Zealand Open Source Awards

Posted by Sigurd on 12 September 2008

Over twenty finalists have now been announced for this year's New Zealand Open Source awards.

The range of organisations and people recognised and the achievements themselves are an amazing demonstration of New Zealand's adoption of open source.

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Virtues of the public development model

Posted by Sigurd on 1 September 2008

We are frequently asked (primarily by business people) why SilverStripe is developed with an open development model.

People generally assume we get some form of contribution by outside developers, which is true, but wonder just how useful or worthwhile it is. All we can offer is that a closed-development model would never encourage genius contributions like this...

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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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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

ghop07 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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