As Mithrandir mentioned in
in this thread, we will soon have a roadmap available. The roadmap will help to organize marketing efforts.
Remember how I mentioned Firefox? What got their community so active to participate in marketing efforts, was the 1.0 release. Maybe for XOOPS it could be XooSphere?
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What about
Meet-Up Groups? There are currently 11 groups, with 33 members
![](https://xoops.org/uploads/smil42e7a3ff4ceee.gif)
We need to promote these groups more on the local support sites. Which will be difficult for Canada, USA, GB, Australia, so the english speaking groups, will need to do so on XOOPS.org.
Herko, how is yours going?
![](https://xoops.org/uploads/smil42e7a65fee35d.gif)
I have created a
XOOPS User Group for Sydney. Anyone in the neighbourhood, please sign-up
![](https://xoops.org/uploads/smil3dbd4d6422f04.gif)
(I will start a fresh thread with more details)
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@phppp:
- eye-candy: in the works (please read posts above!)
- theme competition: in the works, but on hold until XOOPS Theme Forge development has stabelised; once we know how things will work on the forge, we can plan for the 'going public', which will be with the competition. I don't know what you believe, but this is a hell of a lot of work, and there isn't much enthusiasm regarding contributions either.
Now, may I quote herko, who rephrased others in this thread, regarding what should be discussed in this thread:
Quote:
how can we promote people to use the XOOPS we now have
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@herko: what happened to the mascot idea? What was the feedback from the artist? If he reclined further usage, does anyone know someone competent, that could design us a new logo?
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How can we encourage users, to list their site with us?
What about a counter: XXXXX sites are powered by XOOPS?
Could we have a seperate 'Hosting Partners' section, where hosts can be listed, that have XOOPS preinstalled?