Welcome to the October 2013 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter  (see here previous versions). 

It's been a while since the last issue, and a lot of things have changed since the last issue.

Work continues XOOPS 2.6.0. You can read more about latest development in this article: XOOPS is back, and with a vengeance! :)

Recent Highlights:

• Security Patch for XOOPS 2.5.6

• XOOPS is back, and with a vengeance! :)

• Ricardo Costa (Trabis) and Nicolas Andricq (ForMuss) Inducted into XOOPS Hall of Fame

• Richard Griffith to lead XOOPS Core Team

• XOOPS Council adds new members

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to  Charly Cobben (chco2) from Netherlands for his work on the QRCode and CuErPa modules.  
  
  ==> You can see our previous winners here
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Rodney Fulk (redheadedrod) from USA, for his work on MySQLi Connectors for Xoops 2.5.6 and 2.6 and continues support of our users on the XOOPS Forums. 
  
  ==> You can see our previous winners here
  
  

  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain. 

Welcome to the September 2012 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter  (see here previous versions). 

A small celebration: this is the 50th issue of our WOX Newsletter!

We have closed September on a positive note - on Sept. 29, 2012 we had the opportunity to present XOOPS at the CodeWorks PHP Conference in Cincinnati.

Two months ago we've announced that the cross-marketing agreement with our host has not be renewed, and therefore we need $100/month to pay for our dedicated server. Also last month the community came through! Within the first week we had the required donations for October! THANK YOU SO MUCH to everybody who donated money (see the list below)!

Work continues XOOPS 2.6.0. You can learn about XOOPS 2.6.0 Alpha 1 here. See the Roadmap for XOOPS 2.6 by ForMuss and Mage.

You can discuss it in the thread, and let us know what you like and what you don't like. You can follow the development on XOOPS SVN, or you can subscribe to our SVN mailing list to receive updates.

Recent Highlights:

• Presentation "OOP Adventures with XOOPS"

• XOOPS 2.6.0 Alpha 1 has been released for testing

• XOOPS is August "Project of the Month" on SourceForge

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to  Martin Logan (playsome) from UK for his work on the Whitlawburn Community Resource Centre website.  
  
  ==> You can see our previous winners here
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Cedric Montuy (black_beard) from France, for his work on TCPDF updates, and his contributions to XOOPS France. 
  
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  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain. 

Welcome to the August 2012 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter  (see here previous versions). 

Last month we've announced that the cross-marketing agreement with our host has not be renewed, and therefore we need $100/month to pay for our dedicated server.

And the community came through! Within two weeks we had the required donations for September! THANK YOU SO MUCH to everybody who donated money (see the list below)!

The biggest event of the past month was publishing of the Roadmap for XOOPS 2.6 by ForMuss and Mage. You can discuss it in the thread, and let us know what you like and what you don't like. You can follow the development on XOOPS SVN, or you can subscribe to our SVN mailing list to receive updates.

This month was very busy for our Module Developers, with couple of new modules, and several conversions to XOOPS 2.5.5 Admin GUI. This way we are getting closer to having the most important/popular modules sharing the same user-friendly GUI.

Recent Highlights:

• XOOPS 2.6.0 Alpha 1 has been released for testing

• XOOPS is August "Project of the Month" on SourceForge

• XOOPS to present at Codeworks Conference   

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to Lucio Rota (luciorota1) from Italy for his work on xHttpError, xAddresses, and AjaxFileManager. .  
  
  ==> You can see our previous winners here
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to  Stefan Ilivanov (DCrussader) from Bulgaria, for his coordinating of the translation process. 
  
  ==> You can see our previous winners here
  
  

  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain. 

Welcome to the July 2012 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter  (see here previous versions). 

The biggest event of the past month was publishing of the Roadmap for XOOPS 2.6 by ForMuss and Mage. You can discuss it in the thread, and let us know what you like and what you don't like. You can follow the development on XOOPS SVN, or you can subscribe to our SVN mailing list to receive updates.

This month was very busy for our Module Developers, with couple of new modules, and several conversions to XOOPS 2.5.5 Admin GUI. This way we are getting closer to having the most important/popular modules sharing the same user-friendly GUI.

Recent Highlights:

• Roadmap for XOOPS 2.6

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to  Simon Roberts (Wishcraft) from Australia for the creation of IP Log Module, to log IPs of site visitors, and many other modules.  
  
  ==> You can see our previous winners here
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  iis given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Ali Nili (Irmtfan) from Iran, for his support on the XOOPS Forums.
  
  ==> You can see our previous winners here
  
  

  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain. 

Welcome to the June 2012 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter  (see here previous versions) 

This month was very busy for our Module Developers, with welcome updates to several modules, such as:

NewBB 4.3 RC,
SmallWorld 1.11 RC5,
News 1.67 RC3, 
XoopsTube 1.05 RC1,
Defacer 1.11 Final,,
Xortify 3.06

and few others. Many of them need help in testing, so we can solid bug-free Final releases. Please also help with translations!

Work continues on XOOPS 2.6.0, with Mage extracting features into stand-alone modules (like Banners). You can follow the development on XOOPS SVN, or you can subscribe to our SVN mailing list to receive updates.

As every month,  we would like to encourage everybody to ask a question:

What can I do for XOOPS? 
What could I contribute to XOOPS?

There are many areas where you can contribute, based on your skill level: Core, modules, themes, documentation, providing support on the Forums, and translating XOOPS into local languages.

We need to create more teamwork and more community spirit by getting more people actively contributing to XOOPS.

Let's make XOOPS a true "Community Project"!  

Recent Highlights:

• XOOPS featured on SourceForge

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to  Michael Albertsen (Culex) from Denmark for the creation of SmallWorld, our social networking module.  
  
  ==> You can see our previous winners here
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  iis given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Mowafag Ragas (Mowaffaq) from Libya, for his leading role in winning two very important users for XOOPS: the Libyan Ministry of Defense,  and Libyan National Elections High Commission 
  
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  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain. 

Welcome to the May 2012 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter  (see here previous versions) 

We are doing a little bit better with WOX - the May edition of WOX is being published in May!

Our XOOPS friends at http://www.arabxoops.com have been very busy showcasing XOOPS to many organizations and government agencies, and the great news is that after testing XOOPS agains other major Open Source CMS solutions, XOOPS was selected to power the Libyan National Elections High Commission. This is a second important win for XOOPS, after being selected previously as the CMS of choice to power the Libyan Ministry of Defense Website. Congratulations to Mowaffaq and his team!

Work continues on XOOPS 2.6.0. Nicolas (ForMuss) did an awesome job incorporating Twitter's Bootstrap HTML/CSS toolkit in both Admin and User GUI, and Mage is doing fantastic work extracting system functionality into extensions/plugins. You can follow the development on XOOPS SVN, or you can subscribe to our SVN mailing list to receive updates.

Again, we would like to encourage everybody to ask themselves a question:

What can I do for XOOPS? 
What could I contribute to XOOPS?

There are many areas where you can contribute, based on your skill level: Core, modules, themes, documentation, providing support on the Forums, and translating XOOPS into local languages.

We need to create more teamwork and more community spirit by getting more people actively contributing to XOOPS.

Let's make XOOPS a true "Community Project"!  

Recent Highlights:

• XOOPS 2.5.5 Final released

• Libyan National Elections High Commission powered by XOOPS 

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to Angelo Rocha (angelorocha) from Brazil for his work on various innovative modules. 
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Christelle Gaulupeau (Cesag) from France, for her help in translations, and testing of modules. 
  
  

  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain. 

Welcome to the April 2012 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter  (see here previous versions) 

It's been a while since the last issue, almost a year, but things have been hectic around here, we had some turbulent times that kept us busy, and there are only 24 hours in a day But we hope that we'll be able to get back to our regular monthly cycle.

The most important thing is that XOOPS development is going forward, with XOOPS 2.5.5 Final released this week. This is the best XOOPS version ever, with several bugs being fixed.
In parallel to working on XOOPS 2.5.5, the Core Team has also worked very hard on cleaning up and refactoring of the Core as the foundation for XOOPS 2.6.0, and you'll see the results soon. Just to give you an idea about the magnitude of the work that especially Trabis did, is the fact that the current XOOPS 2.6.0 Core, which is still in the pre-Alpha stage, already runs on PHP 5.4 with NO SINGLE error in E_STRICT mode. If you want to check out the source code, you can download it from our SourceForge SVN, but be aware - this is a "pre-Alpha" code and a lot of wrong things can happen, and a lot of things are missing.

The current focus is on improving quality and streamlining the source code so we have a solid foundation for the future. There was just too much PHP4 and old XOOPS related code that got accumulated over time, and we needed to get rid of all this "baggage"  

So XOOPS 2.6.0 will be our focus for the upcoming months, as well as finalizing our Basic Module Pack, with all the module sharing the same "look & feel"

The key to make all of this happen, is to have enough developers and contributors. So we would like to encourage everybody to ask themselves a question:

What can I do for XOOPS? 
What could I contribute to XOOPS?

We cannot expect that few people will do everything:

- develop Core
- develop Modules
- develop themes
- develop documentation
- provide support
- translate into local languages

By putting too much pressure on them by expecting too much, it will only cause their "burnout" and quitting XOOPS  

We need to create more teamwork and more community spirit by getting more people actively contributing to XOOPS.

Let's make XOOPS a true "Community Project"!  

Recent Highlights:

• XOOPS 2.5.5 Final released

• XOOPS powers Libyan Ministry of Defense Website

• EPICentre.TV - Live Boxing Actions done in XOOPS

• XOOPS 2.5.x Translations using Transifex

• XOOPS included in Windows Azure competition

• GUX Brazil - 2 years online!
  

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to  Andrey(andrey3761) from the Russia for his work on Chat module
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Gregory Jomi (sabahan) from Malaysia, for his help on testing and debugging XOOPS 2.5.4! 
  
  

  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain. 

Welcome to the May 2011 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter  (see here previous versions) 

And as always, as the first thing in each newsletter we wanted to express our gratitude to all of you who have donated money to XOOPS Foundation! We truly appreciate your trust and support!  This month our donors are:

- Ivan Kosak: $15

Thank you! If anybody else would like to donate - please don't be shy!

Highlights of the last month:

• Xoops Engine Alpha 2 Is Released

• extGallery version 1.09 final Released

• New CPanel for XOOPS Themes by IXThemes
   

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to to  Richard Griffith (geekwright) from the USA for his work on gwreports module
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Davide Foresti (ianez) from Italy, for his help on various themes issues, like the Cssified Default theme, and recently recently help on several modules from the upcoming "XOOPS Basic Modules Pack"! 
  
  

  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain. 

Welcome to the April 2011 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter. Also this month we're a little bit late. I hope, this month we'll catch up!  (see here previous versions) 

And as always, as the first thing in each newsletter we wanted to express our gratitude to all of you who have donated moneyey to XOOPS Foundation! We truly appreciate your trust and support!  This month our only donor was Ian Underwood. Thank you! If anybody else would like to donate - please don't be shy!

Highlights of the last month:

• XOOPS 2.5.1 and XOOPS 2.5.1a  have been released

• XOOPS @ PHP Community Conference in Nashville

• Converting old modules to XOOPS 2.5.0 GUI: Tutorial

• Updates on Xoops Engine and XOOPS 2 development 
   

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to to Charly Cobben (chco2) from Netherlands for his work on QRCode module and to Grégory Mage (Mage) from France for his work on ModuleAdmin class. He is also author of the TDMDownloads module to be updated soon.
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Jim Garrett (ZySpec) from the USA, for his help on various module, incl. xDirectory, and recently several modules from the upcoming "XOOPS Basic Modules Pack", especially MyLinks!
  
  

  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain. 

Welcome to the March  2011 issue of WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter. Also this month we're a little bit late - sorry for that! (see here previous versions) 

And as always, as the first thing in each newsletter we wanted to express our gratitude to all of you who have donated moneyey to XOOPS Foundation! We truly appreciate your trust and support!  This month our biggest donors were Nicholas James ($100) and James Kahler ($50). Thank you! If anybody else would like to donate - please don't be shy!

Highlights of the last month:

• XOOPS Operation Guide updated for XOOPS 2.5.0

• Mage creates ModuleAdmin class simplifying creation of modules 

• Debugging XOOPS with FirePHP/Firebug (updated hack, and new Tutorial)

• First HTML5 theme for XOOPS
   
   

• XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. This time the award goes to to John Mordo (jlm69) from USA for his work on Classifieds and Jobs modules. John is from XOOPS almost from the beginning - since July 2002! 
   
• XOOPSer of the Month Award:  is given to XOOPS members who show extraordinary dedication to XOOPS, and go the extra mile for XOOPS. This month, it goes to Ruoyu SUN (insraq) from China, for writing a book on building XOOPS Themes and donating the proceeds to XOOPS. This is for the first time ever that we have the same person in a row receiving the "XOOPSer of the Month" Award. Congratulations, Insraq!
  
  

  Congratulations to all of our Winners. Starting this year, all Winners will receive a free book of their choice from O'Reilly. Also a free copy of PHP Storm from JetBrain.