Suggestion for XOOPS officers (members in a leading position) - I would like to suggest to start working using the real names.

When we are dealing with money and make decisions about money (via the XOOPS Foundation), we should use real names.

This will also help to keep discussions and disagreements more leveled, as people will be (for the most part) more civilized in their responses. It's easy to change the nick name, but with a real name, and with Google recording all responses, that will stay forever hunting you into the future, most people will think twice about what and how they say it, so we should expect a little less of mean/silly/disrespectful comments

At Joomla the Core team is publishing their names and even location where they live:

http://www.joomla.org/content/blogcategory/43/85/

and I find it that it adds certain level of professionalism and credibility to Joomla.

I believe that our leaders should do the same.

So let's start with yours (see your empty profile).

Look here at SourceForge for some more info about the people behind Xoops.

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I said "Officers", not everybody. I have nothing to do with money, or I don't make any decisions about money. If somebody is serious about being a team member that runs XOOPS, it should be no problem to introduce themselves to the community who they are.

Please look at Joomla:

http://www.joomla.org/content/blogcategory/43/85/

It's very nice and very professional.

While I appreciate your link to SourceForge, you lost me there. I don't find anything there. People who use nick names are listed with nick names. So how does it compare to Joomla?

We can look, as Mamba says, Joomla. Or we can look at Drupal (another style)
It would be to study.
But we have no pages as:
http://dev.joomla.org/content/view/13/53/ or
http://groups.drupal.org/

Hi Mamba,

While i agree with you, why don't you apply what you say?
https://xoops.org/userinfo.php?uid=31309
(your profile still empty but you're active)

I always kept my signature and my profile up to date:
https://xoops.org/userinfo.php?uid=9455
(nowadays is quite easy to track someone, even behind a nickname)

Best Regards,

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Damaster, I am NOT asking every member of XOOPS to sign with their real name. And since I am just a normal member, thus I'm applying the same standard to me as to others.

However, if somebody is an officer of XOOPS, i.e. is a member of the council, etc. and makes or influences decisions about XOOPS Foundation and how we spend the money there, then I think, it's only fair that these people say who they are.

I don't think that any auditor or legal counselor of an organization where money is involved, would say that this is OK that people are involved in financial decisions and we don't know their real names. Look at Linux, Apache, and Joomla, and everybody knows who the leaders are.

If we're saying that we want XOOPS to be the #1 CMS and be accepted by companies and press, then we should act according to it.

It seems to me that to a certain degree we're still in the "hacker mentality" with our leaders using nick names. And as such, it will be hard for us to find acceptance among corporate world to use XOOPS, and among press to promote it.

Joomla is way better in Public Relations, getting awards, etc. than us. But they come across way more professional than us.

For me there is a difference between these two sites:

http://www.joomla.org/content/blogcategory/43/85/

https://xoops.org/modules/wfchannel/index.php?pagenum=17

with Joomla looking more professional and creating a sense of credibility.

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confirmed, i'm one of them


well, moreover, i would like to see too real photo instead of avatars.