Did you know that the largest open-source project on the Microsoft platform was started in Vancouver, Canada?  It’s true!  DotNetNuke is the largest Open-Source community in the .Net by downloads (at least).  Since moving to CodePlex (Microsoft’s Open-Source hosting platform) in January 2009, DNN has been downloaded over 180,000 times (at time of writing).  This makes it second only to a World Of Warcraft Add-On development studio which has been on CodePlex since Sept 2007 (at least that was the earliest check-in I could find).  Adding that to the all-time download score on SourceForge (the project’s previous host) of 4.3 Million downloads, and you’ve got the the largest .Net open-source project (and one which I am proud to contribute to)!

And here’s the great part for us Canucks, DotNetNuke was created right here (by “here”, I mean where I live :P) in Vancouver!

Microsoft Canada is running a contest called the “Ignite It” award to honour Canadian developers and IT professionals.  DotNetNuke is nominated in the Developer category, and we’re looking for your votes!  There’s only 2 days left, and we’re in the top 5 (which will go on to be judged).  Still, we’d like to be up at number one before voting ends, so here comes the shameless plug :P.  Here’s the deal: You can vote once per Windows Live account per day (though there aren’t many days left :( ).  It only takes a second to vote, and I’ve even created a TinyURL to share with your friends: http://tinyurl.com/dnnigniteit

Let’s push DNN into the top spot!