W.O.X. - WORLD OF XOOPS #13 (October 2008)

Another month, and another issue of the WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter (see here previous versions)  

Month of September was a very busy month for us - with new XOOPS 2.3 being finally released!!!! The weeks ahead will be full of work for the XOOPS community, as we need test existing modules for compatibility with XOOPS 2.3.  It was also another great month for new modules and themes and more and more Websites around the world successfully utilizing XOOPS. We salute all of XOOPS developers who develop new modules and themes and share them with the XOOPS Community!!!

• XOOPS in Finals for Best PHP Open Source CMS!!!! Yes, XOOPS is on the roll - this is the second time this year that XOOPS got into finals of a major Open Source competition, the first being for "Best Open Source Project" on Source Forge Community Awards. The voting will close on Oct. 20th, and we need your vote, so please VOTE TODAY!!! Click here to vote for XOOPS
   
• We continue with the XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to Christophe Capitaine (Burning) for his innovative Theme Gallery.
   
• The "XOOPSer of the Month" is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month we would like to recognize two community members: Gerard Vanderveken (Ghia) for his tireless support of XOOPS users, and Hossien Azizabadi (Voltan) for his support of the Persian community as well as XOOPS users here, and for his countless new cool themes .