Today, the J!Oscars, or the first ever global «Joomla Open Source Creative and Artistic Recognition» awards were held held at the J! and Beyond conference in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The event was led by Brian Teeman and Johan Janssens, both co-founders of Joomla!. Brian actually planned to have a Eurovision Song Contest-like voting process. But as there are 27 countries represented here at the moment, it would last all night (just as the ESC) ;)
To the cheers from the crowd, the winners were announced one after eachother. Johan picked one representative from each country to present the awards, which I found was a nice touch.
The winners in each category are:
The Shortlist
Web Site Community
Web Site Non-Profit
Our South African friends with their non-profit web site award
Web Site Corporate
Web Site Blog
Component
Brian Teeman and the guys from JoomlaWorks
Module or Plugin
Administrator only extension
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos receiving the award
Commercial Template
Free Template
Forum Junkie
Code Junkie
Blog Junkie
Documentation Junkie
Special awards
In addition to these nominated categories there were two additional "Special Awards" for:
Joomla! Innovation of the year
- FlexiContent
Emmanuel Danan receiving the award for Innovation of the year
Outstanding personal achievement
- Peter von Westen
The special awards jury
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