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2008 is nearly done! It has been a year without that much of xoopsfactory in mind. But it’s still running. We I’ll do better the next time. Many things had to be done to clean up xf but I feel, that i will be back in some time. What I intend to say with this post … have some nice days around christmas, lemme know while you’re still alive. Have a nice 2009!

XOOPSaddons.org opened today as another community-driven site to provide a central repository of XOOPS modules, themes, extensions, templates and language packs.

This long-awaited and much discussed resource is the work of many contributors and every effort has been made to give credit where credit is due. There are still plans for additional features for the site, including multilanguage support, supported and maintained module packs and a companion demo site.

Currently, the site houses over 400 modules, more than 400 themes and 60 language packs. This is not a complete compilation of all that is available to extend your XOOPS site, but the work continues and the community’s assistance is greatly appreciate in completing and maintaining this repository. If you would like to help in any way, please contact the team using the Addon Team Forums - http://xoopsinfo.com/modules/newbb/index.php?cat=8

I’m happy to introduce a XOOPS group on XING!

Join, if you haven’t already done!

“XING (named openBC/Open Business Club until November 17th, 2006) is a social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals. The company operating it claims that it is used by people from over 190 countries, albeit the majority of users are Germans. Available languages include English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian.” (wikipedia,10/2007)

I have scheduled the relaunch of xoopsfactory.com for december this year or early beginning of next year. Actually I’m gathering ideas and people around me who are willing to participate. What can you expect? XOOPS factory’s main goal was and is to show XOOPS SITES to our visitors. To show what can be achieved with XOOPS. To show the flexibility and different usage of XOOPS.

During the last few days there were several articles and comments about the actual situation behind the community. The XOOPS foundation and and the XOOPS council. I’m more than tired to read such posts day by day. How long will it last until we have a dead XOOPS? A quote by Speed (user on xoops.org): “Enough is enough. Period. Done. Stop the infighting and move on. Please.”

The XOOPS core development team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.0.17.

This is mainly a maintenance release containing a lot of bugfixes, as well as some functionality enhancements. Read the full changelog for details.

The package is available at the XOOPS Project SourceForge Download page
Posted by: phppp on xoops.org, 26th August 2007

I have registered xoops.me.uk on August 2nd, 2007 as my private site for english speaking visitors. It will be my personal playground, my weblog and a place to publish all kinds of stuff.

No need to register on xoops.me.uk until you want to submit a news entry or want to recieve xoopsed news via email.

The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com.

Following on from the success of 2006, Packt has expanded the Award for 2007 with an increase in prize money and the addition of new categories.

well … there were not that many submissions of xoops sites the last weeks. You have already followed the news and situation on xoops.org, haven’t you? We have gathered some new ideas and, at least, new power and motivation! We will continue the XOOPS Site of the month contest from this month July on! So, again you are invited to submit your favourite xoops site. All sites submitted until now will take part in the next voting! Let’s have fun with xoops again!

I couldn’t sleep this night for having too much ideas and thoughts about x:o (XOOPS.ORG) blowing in my head. Was it a dream? So I’m up tonight. No Panic and … sorry Susan! No it isn’t regular that I’m dreaming about a CMS

Here is One topic out of my head with a high priority (at least for me). To make XOOPS a real CMS or in other words, a bit more than “just a ContentModule Managing System” or “just a Community Management System” WE will NEED at least the option of managing First- and Second-Level Navigation (and –Content) within XOOPS CORE. Let me tell you what I mean by saying this. The best solution I’m used to use is actually presented by Wordpress (hey, I don’t know much about other systems ).