We know Drupal is great and, of course, we're not the only ones. On Halloween, Packt Publishing announced Drupal as the overall winner of their annual open source CMS award - repeating the win from 2007.

The award is judged by both a panel of industry professionals as well as votes on the website.

Here's the blurb which mentions Joomla as #2 and DoNetNuke as #3:

Packt’s annual Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award reached its climax today with the announcement that Drupal has won the Overall category, collecting a first prize of $5,000. Three months after it was launched and a staggering 20,000 votes later, Drupal finished ahead of Joomla! and DotNetNuke to retain the Award it won in 2007.

Packt includes the obligatory brief history of Drupal which you probably know, so instead ... here's a quote from Drupal Godfather Dries giving props to the community:

 "These awards are a testament to the valuable contributions from dedicated Drupal community members around the globe" said Buytaert in response to the news. "Working together, the Drupal community is building the future of the dynamic web so that anyone can quickly build great social publishing websites" he concluded.   

The third annual Open Source CMS Award has been launched yesterday! So if you have tried some content management systems and have a preference, like... let's say Drupal for example... remember to go HERE and to vote for you favorite (drupal) CMS.

You probably saw all of these articles already but ... in case you missed any ... get comfy, pour a beverage and do some reading about Open Source CMSs in the news:

Drupal and The Future of News

Tech writer Kurt Cagle from Open Source Pixels {cribbed article bio: managing editor of XML.com, lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is beginning to wonder what happened to summer - Ed note: Ditto on the summer ;-)} offers a wide-ranging narrative about his experiences with Drupal, (including a name-check of Bryght/Raincity Studios) in his June 1, 2008 article. Well worth a read for his interesting historical and technical perspectives.

Many of the Raincity crew are in Barcelona for DrupalCon, while here in Vancouver, the bonus balmy days gave way to an elegantly understated, greyish Tuesday - a few swirling leaves in the streets suggests hockey season is near.

Stay with me here as, to me, hockey and Drupal go hand in hand since my desire to publish a hockey podcast was the impetus for hooking up with Boris' big Kool-aid pitcher.

Into the 3rd season of shows, the site (besides being woefully under-designed and hardly an example of best practices) has allowed me to concentrate on creating compelling content (and enjoying beverages while watching games) instead of dealing with excess steps in my quest to get content to the people.

David Axmark of MySQL (Wednesday October 19th), Johan Janssens of Joomla (Thursday October 20th) and Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP (Thursday October 20th), are some of the Open Source luminaries who will be presenting at Drupal Con Amsterdam 2005. Check out the Drupal Con Amsterdam 2005 program page for full details. And of course, many, many of the Drupal luminaries will presenting too. See you there.