
As published on The XOOPS Foundation site
There has been a lot of debate within the XOOPS communities recently about the future and current directions of XOOPS, of which the Foundation is part.
Opening today October 1st 2007, the XOOPS Foundation web site is the place where everything related to the Foundation will be published. This site will be a place of transparency and a tool to help achieve the Foundation mission : support the XOOPS Project and the XOOPS Community in any way it can.
This team in close collaboration with the other teams of Xoops, occupies the party “Design”. Composed regular members in workload daily newspapers, they also have (each one in its field) the management of Working Groups on the various projects of the team.
The current report (difficulties of personalization in a professional touch, absence of “design standards”) revealed the need for re-examining the writing “design” of the core, this task is not so important that we could think it for a team, even of reduced size, motivated and collaborators (between its members but also with other "Xoops Team").
This team has a work important to realize, we must take the aforementioned like a multitude of projects and set up management and the means to obtain convincing and fast results.
These Task Groups must appeal and be made up of volunteers of the various Xoops communities according to the projects to realize. They has there for all the temporary participation and qualification levels (indeed even two files to correct in certain projects, in fact already two of realising!).
Thus a Team for you, by you!
If you're in the Toronto area October 25 and 26, don't miss the Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) at York University. Julian Egelstaff will be giving a two hour workshop on building custom applications with XOOPS and Formulize, 10am on the 25th.
FSOSS is now entering it's sixth year, and has become a major event, this year featuring such notable speakers as:
Also, the Smartfactory will be in attendance, including xoops.org's very own Marcan. Come and show your support for the XOOPS community, listen to some amazing people, and learn a few tricks along the way! Spaces in the Formulize workshop are limited though, so register today.
More info:
FSOSS homepage, with a link to registration
Description of the Formulize Workshop
Formulize space on dev.xoops.org
Thanks for reading, see you in October.
--The Freeform Solutions Team
We proudly announce: The first German book on XOOPS is out and available by now.
On more than 360 pages, the reader learns everything he needs to start with XOOPS. After a detailed description of the installation process, the author describes the individual concepts and components of this free CMS.
The reader learns how to deal with blocks, modules and themes. Lots of examples show how to pimp one's XOOPS by little means. For the expansion of the XOOPS site, the author recommends the German XOOPS-StarterModulesPack. The individual modules of this package are also described in detail.
"XOOPS kompakt" is intended for the XOOPS beginner, but also advanced users will take profit out of the many tips and background information. e.g. on the MySQL tables or on problem solution.
While still under development, the book has been supervised by the German myXOOPS.org team. A book supporting web site has been set up (http://www.xoops-buch.de), where the readers find more information, e.g. modules and German language packs translated by the author, and where they can share their experiences with the author and other readers and users.
The author, Autor Helmut F. Reibold, aka karim and markesh on xoops.org, is working as a freelance journalist and has published already several books on OpenSource topics.