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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)

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

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.

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 ).

those, who were following the news around xoops, wouldn’t have missed that there will be a new organisation of the xoops.org teams. Skalpa, the lead developer for the past year, has resigned from his job. A new structure has to be built. DJ aka phppp has taken the role of the lead core developer and started to let the team create themselves.

Missed the artile? Read: Changes in the World of XOOPS!

The official german XOOPS Support community has a new owner, it’s me! Joachim aka frankblack who was the former owner of myxoops[-.de -. org -.info] could not continue his work and asked me to care, maintain and continue the website. With the help of admins, moderators and members of the community we will continue to help in xoops related topics where we can.

A second screen idea for a possible layout of new XOOPS.org. It’s a bit more coloured and younger styled but I like this kind.

Again, this is just an idea without looking too deep in too much details. The changes in colours made here a complete different look and feel I think. Perhaps we can have some images of our own? community events?

Before submitting some ideas and thoughts about the redesign of xoops.org i will play a bit with the colours, the new logo and some old ideas. This is the first one.

Again, this is a variation from the basic theme used on system XOOPS …

while I was preparing to publish an article that XOOPS.org is back online, the hacker gained access to xoops.org admin again. He changed original posts of the community and there was no other solution than to close xoops.org again.