Took the opportunity to post a comment on the xoops part of OpensourceCMS.org yesterday

Shame that their demo version is still 2.0.18.2 but it does give 2.3.1 as the current stable release.

Worth spending 5 mins on I think.

The problem is that it is the default installation, without any module installed. I would like that some modules are installed as well on the demo site, such as News, NewBB, Contact Us, etc.
Look eg. to the exv2 (extended XOOPS version 2), which comes with a news module.

In it present naked form XOOPS fails miserable in the demo as Content Managment System, because there is no way to add any content at all!

Xoops.org should provide OpenSourceCMS a special crafted showcase XOOPS with installed and preconfigured modulepack, which contains already some example articles, themes, preconfigurated blocks, links to more information, etc in order to give the potential user a good look and feel of the real possibilities of XOOPS.

And maybe this pack could also be useful for novice users, which could have then a 'press one button' deployed XOOPS complete running with a default module pack installation.

You guys are absolutely right.

XOOPS 2.3.1 Final is finally out, so our focus will be now on modules and module packs.

In the meantime, feel free to add your user comments at OpenSourceCMS

I posted a comment there last
weekend and it took a few days
before it was approved. They must
get their (un)fair share of spam
comments.

I was surprised at the number of
negative comments posted about
XOOPS early on. I've been using it
for a little over a year now and
wish I had been using it from the
start now.

Thank you for your comments! Very much appreciated.

We need to do a better job in letting people know that we do like XOOPS!

XOOPS is like a "best kept secret" and it's time to end it