Sad news for XOOPS Community: Dutch court dismisses our claims against Herko Coomans
Very sad and disappointing news for our community!
As you know, in 2009, we have filed a lawsuit against our former Project Manager Herko Coomans for return of funds (around €15,000) that belong to XOOPS community and are currently held by "Stichting XOOPS"
We've been just informed by our lawyers in Netherlands that unfortunately the Dutch Court dismissed our claims. The verdict is clearly disappointing to us and we strongly believe that the District Court of Zwolle-Lelystad erred in its conclusion, and we are investigating a possible appeal.
For example, it is beyond our comprehension that the court could state that purchasing by Herko the domain http://www.xoops.com on behalf of XOOPS (as confirmed by others) for $18.95 and selling it back to Stichting XOOPS for €4,000, while being approved by the same man who sells it (which is Herko Coomans himself), doesn't consitute a "personal enrichment", or as we would call it in the US: Self-dealing. At a current exchange rate that's $5,330 profit for Herko, which he approved for himself out of XOOPS money!!! If you're puzzled by such a verdict, so are we!
[Edit]Especially since the Dutch Supreme Court is very clear in its decisions about "Conflict of Interest" (see here)
This case will be definitely a warning to other Open Source projects to avoid the Dutch "Stichting" legal form, and about the Dutch court that obviously doesn't understand the Open Source project idea.
You can see the verdict in Dutch here
While we are investigating a possible appeal, the important thing for us as a community is to continue with our work and keep moving forward. Our XOOPS journey continues!
We appreciate all of your support in this legal matter and our most sincere "Thanks" goes to all the 225 people who signed the petition!
Below is the English translation done by Ghia. If there are any corrections needed, please let us know, and we'll improve it.
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As you know, in 2009, we have filed a lawsuit against our former Project Manager Herko Coomans for return of funds (around €15,000) that belong to XOOPS community and are currently held by "Stichting XOOPS"
We've been just informed by our lawyers in Netherlands that unfortunately the Dutch Court dismissed our claims. The verdict is clearly disappointing to us and we strongly believe that the District Court of Zwolle-Lelystad erred in its conclusion, and we are investigating a possible appeal.
For example, it is beyond our comprehension that the court could state that purchasing by Herko the domain http://www.xoops.com on behalf of XOOPS (as confirmed by others) for $18.95 and selling it back to Stichting XOOPS for €4,000, while being approved by the same man who sells it (which is Herko Coomans himself), doesn't consitute a "personal enrichment", or as we would call it in the US: Self-dealing. At a current exchange rate that's $5,330 profit for Herko, which he approved for himself out of XOOPS money!!! If you're puzzled by such a verdict, so are we!
[Edit]Especially since the Dutch Supreme Court is very clear in its decisions about "Conflict of Interest" (see here)
This case will be definitely a warning to other Open Source projects to avoid the Dutch "Stichting" legal form, and about the Dutch court that obviously doesn't understand the Open Source project idea.
You can see the verdict in Dutch here
While we are investigating a possible appeal, the important thing for us as a community is to continue with our work and keep moving forward. Our XOOPS journey continues!
We appreciate all of your support in this legal matter and our most sincere "Thanks" goes to all the 225 people who signed the petition!
Below is the English translation done by Ghia. If there are any corrections needed, please let us know, and we'll improve it.
tinyXOOPS 0.1 RTT
Name : tinyXOOPS
Version : 0.1
Status : RTT (Ready to test)
What is tinyXOOPS?
tinyXOOPS is a script that automatically downloads the latest XOOPS install/upgrade archive from sourgeforge to your server. And after the archive has been downloaded to your server it automatically unzips it and redirects you to the XOOPS install/upgrade wizard.
What do I need to run tinyXOOPS?
PHP 5.2+ (Lower version may work, but not tested)
- zlib must be installed
- allow_url_fopen must be "On"
- safemode must be off*
And the normal XOOPS requirements
*If you can change the max_execution_time to 0 (unlimited) yourself you don't have to disable safe mode. And if you can change it yourself I advise you to turn it on again after installation.
How do I use tinyXOOPS
1. Download the tinyXOOPS archive from [HERE].
2. Go to your webserver and make the directory where you want to install XOOPS writable. (Windows: Uncheck "read-only" in the directory properties. LINUX: CHMOD 777)
3. Upload the files in the downloaded archive to the directory you just made writable.
4. Open your browser and go to: http://yourdomain.com/yourdir/tinyXOOPS.php
5. Click on INSTALL if you want to perform a clean install and click UPGRADE if you want to perform a upgrade of your existing intallation.
- Downloading and unpacking may take some time, so don't worry if it takes long to load.
6. After the XOOPS files are downloaded and upacked you'll be redirected to the XOOPS install/upgrade wizard, complete this. (Check the XOOPS documentation for help with this)
- After the upgrade/install wizard is finished make sure the XOOPS installation dir isn't writeable anymore. (Windows: Check "read-only" in the directory properties. LINUX: CHMOD 755). And that you remove tinyXOOPS.php and pclzip.lib.php from your server.
What can I expect in future versions of tinyXOOPS
- A nicer layout
- Smaller files
- A (better) solution for the script execution time problem. (if i can find one...)
- And some other things I forgot to mention.
And please remember this is a test version!
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Version : 0.1
Status : RTT (Ready to test)
What is tinyXOOPS?
tinyXOOPS is a script that automatically downloads the latest XOOPS install/upgrade archive from sourgeforge to your server. And after the archive has been downloaded to your server it automatically unzips it and redirects you to the XOOPS install/upgrade wizard.
What do I need to run tinyXOOPS?
PHP 5.2+ (Lower version may work, but not tested)
- zlib must be installed
- allow_url_fopen must be "On"
- safemode must be off*
And the normal XOOPS requirements
*If you can change the max_execution_time to 0 (unlimited) yourself you don't have to disable safe mode. And if you can change it yourself I advise you to turn it on again after installation.
How do I use tinyXOOPS
1. Download the tinyXOOPS archive from [HERE].
2. Go to your webserver and make the directory where you want to install XOOPS writable. (Windows: Uncheck "read-only" in the directory properties. LINUX: CHMOD 777)
3. Upload the files in the downloaded archive to the directory you just made writable.
4. Open your browser and go to: http://yourdomain.com/yourdir/tinyXOOPS.php
5. Click on INSTALL if you want to perform a clean install and click UPGRADE if you want to perform a upgrade of your existing intallation.
- Downloading and unpacking may take some time, so don't worry if it takes long to load.
6. After the XOOPS files are downloaded and upacked you'll be redirected to the XOOPS install/upgrade wizard, complete this. (Check the XOOPS documentation for help with this)
- After the upgrade/install wizard is finished make sure the XOOPS installation dir isn't writeable anymore. (Windows: Check "read-only" in the directory properties. LINUX: CHMOD 755). And that you remove tinyXOOPS.php and pclzip.lib.php from your server.
What can I expect in future versions of tinyXOOPS
- A nicer layout
- Smaller files
- A (better) solution for the script execution time problem. (if i can find one...)
- And some other things I forgot to mention.
And please remember this is a test version!
bXOOPS - The XOOPS Song (Alpha Release)
XOOPS is an exciting platform powered by the dedication of Open Source Developers that passionately make version for the community. Community maintained and committed, XOOPS offers one of the most helpful environment to nurturer any web developers needs. This is more of an Artistic Contribution my friend NQAI is making a XOOPS Song and this is the alpha edition. NQAI Records Professionally write jingles for advertising, this is not but could be used with the Video Competition. I would like to see a song competition as well. If you would like to download the alpha click here!! (1.32Mbs) or you can listen here: Paul from NQAI Believes this track needs some more work and have released it much like an alpha edition of software the alpha edition of the XOOPS Jingles. He is lookin for suggestion of lyrics and information his contact details are below. NQAI Records Contact: Paul Doherty Email: prjmtd@gmail.com Website: http://www.nqai-records.com MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/nqai
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Free Xoops Design Sd-072-Light
I'm happy to present my new FREE XOOPS Theme with the name Theme Xoops Design Sd-072-Light.
Here can you find the
- XOOPS 2.4 Theme Demo
- XOOPS 2.5 Theme Demo
And here is the FREE
- Download Xoops Theme Sd-072-Light
Regards and have Fun with the free XOOPS Theme.
Comments?
Here can you find the
- XOOPS 2.4 Theme Demo
- XOOPS 2.5 Theme Demo
And here is the FREE
- Download Xoops Theme Sd-072-Light
Regards and have Fun with the free XOOPS Theme.
Spiders 1.15
[size=x-large]Spiders 1.15[/size]
Spiders is a robot manager tool, that imports a list of all crawler and scanner robots on the web. It allows you to use XOOPS Permissiveness to control the data that robots list online your site. It will also log the robot in using a post loader and display when the robot is online on you 'Whos Online'.
The robot text file used is taken from an online resource of Robot data and stores it in your database. Remember to adjust your mainfile.php to include the post loader after the common file is loaded.
Robot Manager (Spiders) is a good way to control what your site displays in search engines.
Spider is only written for XOOPS 2.3 and later.
Download: xoops2.4_spiders_1.15.zip (144Kb)
Mirror: Live Skydriver
Changes
* Forms added to assist data cleaning
Catads 1.53.1 BETA released
One of the annoying bugs in the original release of Catads 1.53 BETA was that the pagination of search results didn't work.
It makes a big difference to have this feature working, so I have released a bug-fix version (Catads 1.53.1) plus a patch-file download for those that just want to update the changed files.
It works fine in my tests using Firefox and IE - Xoops 2.3 - PHP 4 - MySQL 4. If you encounter a problem and are using PHP 5 or a later version of Xoops, please post on the main xoops.org forum where hopefully I can gain some additional help in finding a solution.
Download from the 'Files' page at:
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/?cat_ads_153
Peekay
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It makes a big difference to have this feature working, so I have released a bug-fix version (Catads 1.53.1) plus a patch-file download for those that just want to update the changed files.
It works fine in my tests using Firefox and IE - Xoops 2.3 - PHP 4 - MySQL 4. If you encounter a problem and are using PHP 5 or a later version of Xoops, please post on the main xoops.org forum where hopefully I can gain some additional help in finding a solution.
Download from the 'Files' page at:
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/?cat_ads_153
Peekay
RMCommon Utilities 2 and MyWords 2 (Alpha)
We are very glad to announce the immediate availability of RMCommon Utilities and MyWords (Alpha Releases) for Xoops 2.4
RMCommon is a module that contains several utilities for new modules developmente, including:
New advanced editors
New form fields very easy to use
Perfectly integrated with Xoops
New comments system to include comments quickly and easier than ever.
Advanced image management
New graphical appearance for Admin GUI
Support for plugins that can integrate with all system
much more...
You can download RMCommon Utilities from here.
MyWords is an advanced module to manage blogs with a lot of new features that improves its functionallity. The articles management is easier than its predecessor and we had added new features and improved the module GUI.
MyWords also offers a new support for friendly URLs (with htaccess files) that allows you to specify where the module will response to queries by configuring a single configuration option in the module preferences and by adding a few lines to your htaccess file.
Important: MyWords requires that RMCommon had been installed before to use or install it.
Please, note that both modules are in Alpha status and it is not recommended to use them in a production environment.
New features and functionallity are still being planned for a near future. We will keep you posted.
Download:
RMCommon Utilities
MyWords
Plugins for RMCommon Utitilies:
* Akismet plugin
* Gravatar plugin
* Recaptcha plugin
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RMCommon is a module that contains several utilities for new modules developmente, including:
New advanced editors
New form fields very easy to use
Perfectly integrated with Xoops
New comments system to include comments quickly and easier than ever.
Advanced image management
New graphical appearance for Admin GUI
Support for plugins that can integrate with all system
much more...
You can download RMCommon Utilities from here.
MyWords is an advanced module to manage blogs with a lot of new features that improves its functionallity. The articles management is easier than its predecessor and we had added new features and improved the module GUI.
MyWords also offers a new support for friendly URLs (with htaccess files) that allows you to specify where the module will response to queries by configuring a single configuration option in the module preferences and by adding a few lines to your htaccess file.
Important: MyWords requires that RMCommon had been installed before to use or install it.
Please, note that both modules are in Alpha status and it is not recommended to use them in a production environment.
New features and functionallity are still being planned for a near future. We will keep you posted.
Download:
RMCommon Utilities
MyWords
Plugins for RMCommon Utitilies:
* Akismet plugin
* Gravatar plugin
* Recaptcha plugin
Series of Car themes
We are happy to offer several themes focused on cars 
For those who prefer bikes:
You can download these and other themes from theme repository of frxoops
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For those who prefer bikes:
You can download these and other themes from theme repository of frxoops
xPNews 1.2 - NNTP Protocol News
xPNews 1.2
NNTP Protocol newsgroup browser for XOOPS 2.3 or later. This newsgroup browser allows you to connect your xoops to any NNTP Protocol news service, including mime type parser and clear text browsing.
You can cross post, reply and make new posts to your Usenet or NNTP service on your own server. Based on PNews the GNU PHP newsgroup browser this title will allow you to access some of the older areas of the internet before the website.
Newgroups are the orginal forums, these are available to most people and offer the enticement of older areas and protocols of the internet.
Xoops has a usenet area and we would like you to connect to it just add xoops* to your groups.
Key Features:
- NNTP Protocol
- Multiple Server
- Page Retention
- Lite Server Load
- Group by Group Permissions
- Servers
- HTAccess SEO
Download today : xoops2.4_xpnews_1.2.zip (123Kb)
Mirror : xoops2.4_xpnews_1.2.zip (123Kb)
The French cuisine through 3 websites
My Beautiful Company, website publisher, is pleased to present its last 3 achievements around cuisine. Discover French cuisine !
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