Magento wins ‘Best New Open Source Project’!
Magento has won the best new open-source project at the 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards!
This is a great honor and we are especially proud of our wonderful community that has helped Magento get recognized for this award. Thank you so much for your efforts and hopefully we’ll win more awards next year.
A few pictures from the event are below:





1R22B |posted July 26 2008
Congrats… much deserved.
Now you can focus on helping members with problems they are having =)
2Did from Paris, France|posted July 26 2008
Congrats devs, thumbs up
3etho201 from Summerville, SC|posted July 26 2008
Congratulations!!! Very well deserved. Magento is amazing and continues to get better and better with each update!
Thank you for everything you do.
4chinesedream from San Francisco, CA|posted July 26 2008
Congrats!!! Now post some party celebrations’ photos please, so that we can share the joy
5Gui |posted July 26 2008
Gratz!
6Crucial Web Host from Phoenix, AZ|posted July 26 2008
YES!
Thats Great! Congrats to Roy, Yoav and the whole team who has worked so hard.
This is well deserved and I wouldn’t have doubted that Magento would win this one!
Great job Varien!!!
7ptjedi |posted July 26 2008
Parabens! This is how we say ‘Congratulations’ in Portuguese. Very well done and deserved. Keep up the excellent work all of you in Varien.
8norbolig |posted July 26 2008
Gratulerer - Congratulations. No doubt, well deserved! Thank you for doing such a great job.
9Josue4ever from Mexico DF|posted July 26 2008
Well, I voted for Best New Open Source Project
But… Was another option?
Magento has no limits, and is the best project in a long, long time.
Cheers!
10Sprout Collective from Portland, OR / Orange County, CA|posted July 26 2008
Congrats! Did anyone really expect otherwise?
11JoeCai |posted July 27 2008
Congratulations:)
12theazmi |posted July 27 2008
Mabrook, thats the way to greet in Arabic
. Magento really has lot of possibilities, i did try to vote on sourceforge awards but there was some issue with the login page where it would land me back to the same page although i was entering the right credentials
13Casper |posted July 27 2008
Gefeliciteerd or Congratulations! Well done folks! It really is the best new Open Source projects since years! Keep it running!
14AntiS3 |posted July 27 2008
Congratz t for this very much deserved award. Doubtlessly there will be more to come by keeping the god work guys. Cheers for Magento!
15Ross from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK|posted July 28 2008
What a great achievement! Well done to the Magento team and community. Now nobody can ignore Magento.
16[m] zentrale from Stuttgart, Germany|posted July 28 2008
Congratulations! So the next steps are clear to become “Best Open Source Project´” for the next voting
Thumbs Up and cheers! Alex
17Purna |posted July 29 2008
Congratulations !!! This is deserved for Magento ....
18ImpelGD from Dundee, UK|posted July 29 2008
Congratulations on this achievement. I’ve yet to try out Magento, but am very much looking forward to doing so.
19teddmcload |posted July 29 2008
i voted Magento.
Congratulations Magento Team. keep going
20Anuruddha |posted July 29 2008
My congrats to whole Magento. team..... u r da best........... Im bit proud here too..
coz I voted for Magento… he he
keep up da good work guys......
21dracnet from Barcelona (Spain)|posted July 29 2008
another congratulations post…
keep going… theres always a light at the end of the tunnel, just pray its not a train.
22ldat |posted July 29 2008
Stupendous
23sherrie from Illinois, USA|posted July 29 2008
Congratulations!!!
24swindle |posted July 30 2008
Amazing product. TY TY TY!
25BerArt from The Netherlands - Breda|posted July 30 2008
Way to go! very nice so congrads!
26ayaan |posted August 5 2008
Congrats…very much deserved!!!
27rosaltof |posted August 6 2008
Well done…
Defo deserved!