I was lucky enough to have Maxim (aka ort) of LiveStreet CMS take time to talk about the project and what being being nominated in Packt Publishing’s 2010 Open Source Awards means to LiveStreet. LiveStreet is a top five finalist for Most Promising Open Source Project.

Dr. Apps: Since this category is for projects that are less than two years old, how does it feel to be recognized by the community as one of the most promising open source projects?

Maxim: I’m very glad that LiveStreet CMS became one of five finalists of the “Most Promising Open Source Project”. To my mind it is a big achievement. At first we didn’t plan to take part in this competition, but our active users pushed us to this step. Thanks to the support of our community (Russian community mainly) we could get through the first step of the selection. So I’d like to thank our community and to everybody who voted for us. Read more...