Some time ago I mentionned SourceForge 2008 Community Choice Awards and was hoping for some good news for Drupal... I even created an account on SourceForge just to be able to vote... What do you think happened?

Here are the results:

I'm only interested in the Best Project category of the SourceForge 2008 Community Choice Awards, as you can see we can find again my beloved Drupal in this list, that's good, so I voted for Drupal in several categories. You can do so too at https://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-vote

I know, I know, I'm not stupid, I know a blog isn't meant to be abandoned like that.

I let it down for reasons I'll explain later when I'll post again.

Now today I just want to speak about why I transfered my blog from WordPress to Drupal and how.

I bought the domain on october 2007 in order to install WordPress and MediaWiki and start using them in collaboration to see and show that money can be better made by using a blog and a wiki working together.
In fact I went as far as installing WordPress, then I blogged a little, I learned about plugins, and installed a few.

I'm happy that finally Drupal 6 is out, about a month after Joomla 1.5 has been released.

After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are evident in Drupal 6's major usability improvements, security and maintainability advancements, friendlier installer, and expanded development framework. Further, from bug fix to feature request, these issues follow-through on the Drupal project's continued commitment to deliver flexibility and power to themers and developers.

It was a rather long wait since last summer I was expecting Drupal 6 before the end of the year, but now it's done... I only have a dozen sites worth upgrading to do!

You don't understand the above sentence? Hahaha! If there are some words you don't get I'll explain briefly, but if you get all the sentence's words then you might want to try Drigg right now on a new Drupal install...

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award 2007 is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to the Packt website which has been promoted by the different open source projects communities. This is very nice of Packt to reward open source projects and in my opinion Drupal is the best of all, it has been the most useful piece of software for me so far in my money making journey on the web, soif it depended only on me it should be the overall winner of this friendly competition as well as the winner in the two categories in which it is a finalist.

Packt is pleased to reveal that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System. In a very close category, WordPress came out in front of Elgg and Drupal, who finished joint second.

In what is one of the new categories for 2007, the Open Source Social Networking CMS Award was designed to recognise Content Management Systems that promoted the collaboration and distribution of information and development of communities. The Judges commented on WordPress's ease of configuration, professional approach, usability and enthusiastic community. Along with the title, WordPress will receive $2,000 in prize money from Packt.

With the judges choosing and internauts contributing their top three choices, Elgg and Drupal ended up on the same number of votes in joint second. Judges praised Elgg as a true Open Source Social Networking CMS, its variety of themes and overall user experience. Drupal had a long list of positive comments from the judges and was praised as a good overall package.

The total prize fund is $20 000 but for this category of BEST SOCIAL NETWORKING OPEN SOURCE CMS only the winner of the five finalists gets $2000 and the other projects get nothing. Here are the results...

1. WordPress www.WordPress.org
2. Drupal www.Drupal.org, Elgg www.Elgg.org

LifeType www.LifeType.net and Moodle www.Moodle.org didn't make it to the top 3 but are worth checking out too since they were finalist projects...

Congratulations to WordPress, the winning project of BEST SOCIAL NETWORKING CMS 2007!!!

When I read forums, sometimes I see people asking for advice on which CMS would be adapted for their particular project, and often there are replies of what looks like Joomla fanatics who answer without any argument that Joomla is the best CMS.

I can't stand it because I know it's wrong, but then I'm not paid to promote any particular CMS nor am I paid by the original poster to convince him to choose the best solution for his project. Because let's be real here, for most common uses, from people who have no experience of CMS, Joomla will do the job as well as a number of other CMS solutions!