xoops FACTORY

“Following a nomination round and eight weeks of voting, Packt are pleased to announce Joomla! as the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award. Joomla! collects a first prize of $5,000 and the title of Packt Open Source CMS Award Winner for 2006.

The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a fourth independent judge would be brought in. This was Apoorv Durga who is a member of CM Pros and runs his own blog [http://apoorv.info/] on portals and content management. This crucial vote ended up with Joomla! triumphing over Drupal by one point. ” (www.packtpub.com, 11/2006)

The english version of my Blogger-Community is online now.

“blogger-community.com is a place for people like you and me who love to blog their ideas, thoughts, emotions or tips and stuff. Our intention is to give you the possibility to introduce and promote your (we)blog within a short summary. It is free and easy. You will only need to register an account (which should be done within a minute) and submit your text.” (blogger-community.com, Oct. 2006)

Sorry, it’s more private and only less XOOPS related, I know, but my blogger-community.de is nominated within homepage category “computer + internet” in GIGA’s Homepage Award 2006 .

Please take a second and gimme 5 points (the highest points from 1 to 5) with your voting for blogger-community.de within the next 7 days! It’s just a second! …

The book with topic XOOPS, “Building Websites with XOOPS : A step-by-step tutorial, by Steve Atwal” available on packtpub.com is comming soon!

- Simple and practical guide to XOOPS
- Manage blocks, modules, users, and themes
- Case study reinforces effective learning

Expected Published October 2006. Pre-order now, save 20% pre-order-discount! Order Now!

Xoopsfactory is Ready for subscribers. Thanks to feedburner.com you will not miss any post from xoopsfactory.com in future. Klick on the small image within this post or use this link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/xoopsfactory to subscribe to our feed!

Google is actually promoting it’s software pack. “The Google Pack is a free collection of essential software from Google and other companies. The software in the Google Pack helps you browse the web faster, remove spyware and viruses, organize your photos, and more. All the software has been verified free of unwanted extra programs or excessive notifications.” (Google, 16th Sept. 2006) There is software included like:
- Picasa - Photo organizer
- Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition - Antivirus utility
- Ad-Aware SE Personal - Antispyware utility
- Google Video Player - Video player
- Google Talk - Voice and IM application
- and some more …

“Packt is pleased to announce that the voting stage for the Open Source Content Management System Award has opened”.
All XOOPSers are asked to support XOOPS and are invited to submit their voting for XOOPS on www.PacktPub.com!

Some time ago I reported about the “Packt Open Source CMS Award” starting with the nomination. Now, there is the result of the nomination.
“The following final five received the most public nominations during the course of the six weeks and are listed in alphabetical order:

• Drupal
• - e107
• - Joomla
• - Plone
• - Xoops

(…) These five will now go through to a final stage of voting, with the eventual winner being announced on November 14. A panel of independent judges and votes taken from visitors to www.PacktPub.com will go towards deciding the eventual winner. Voting will commence on September 12 and will run until November.” (www.packtpub.com/award, 5th september 2006) Keep track of the Award schedule on: www.PacktPub.com/Award_Timeline!

Packt Publishing is currently looking for people to nominate their favourite Content Management System at www.PacktPub.com/award until the first of september.

The five projects that receive the most public nominations will go through to a final round of voting, with a panel of judges and votes from users deciding who receives the $5,000 prize.

For more information about the Packt Open Source Content Management System Prize, please visit: www.PacktPub.com/award.

Of course, we here on a xoops site will know which cms to nominate, won’t we?

Announcing I.T. Support Forums techpronow.com!

I have opened up a new forum to talk about Internet Technology. It is meant to be as a free source of advice for all of your home and business computing questions.

We have about 30 Help Desk type of files free to download as well.