The 4th Annual Open Source CMS Awards sponsored by Packt Publishing is open for nominations Joomla! is eligible for Best PHP Open Source CMS and you can also nominate project contributors as Open Source MVPs The nominations are open until September 11. Voting among the top five nominees will begin on September 18.

Joomla! (along with Drupal) is already a nominee in the new Hall of Fame category. The Hall of Fame category will have sub-category awards for best extensions and themes which will be nominated by the CMS's representatives. Watch the community blogs for more information.

This has been a great year for Joomla. The Production Working Group released the alpha of Joomla! 1.6, beta is coming soon. Joomla passed 11 million downloads. The Site Showcase and Joomla! Resources Directory sites were launched. There are over 3000 extensions to Joomla 1.5 in the Joomla Extensions Directory. Over 20 Joomla Days happened, and more than 80 Joomla User Groups met around the world. Let's celebrate by nominating Joomla! for Best Open Source CMS!

Source: http://www.joomla.org/announcements/general-news/5246-nominate-joomla.html