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CMSWire has published a great article about XOOPS. I love this quote:Quote:With two prestigious recognitions in less than 6 months, XOOPS is flexing its muscle as a powerful, PHP based open source Web CMS.Look for more big things from XOOPS throughout 2009. Who knows, maybe that finalist spot in PacktPub.comâs contest will become a winning spot this year.It's definitely great to see that the press is finally taking notice of XOOPS.Read more here...

In order to generate funds to cover the cost of hosting our servers, we have opened a new Cafepress Shop, and we want the community to help us design cool and unique XOOPS images for t-shirts, mugs, caps, etc.We hope to have lots of winners as we need many designs, so open up your favorite graphic editor and bring out the artist in you!The prize for winning will be fame and fortune as people all over the world will wear your design and drink from your scribbles...Of course you'll have to hand...

The Galician translation of XOOPS 2.3.x, made by Eduar Garza (http://www.xeral.net/), is now available for download. Thanks to Eduar who spend his time to make Galician translation available for The XOOPS Project.You can download the release from XOOPS Spanish Community on http://sourceforge.net/projects/esxoopsTranslation of News and Oledrion modules are also available.Download Galician Translations

Dave Porter in his 2009 Web Predictions mentions XOOPS as one of the three Open Source projects where web developers are moving to for running their Web sites:Quote:The open source community thrived in 2008 and AXcess News predicts that in 2009 the web will go through an "open source revolution" of sorts. We credit much of that to Google's browser and how mobile providers have been going down on one knee to adapt it. Mobile computing is one area where open source has attracted more develope...

By Gao JinThe XOOPS China team has won a prestigious award at the 2008 China Open Source Software Contest (OSSContest) in Beijing.XOOPS China won the main award for excellence in creative application. The award will be accepted by Taiwen Jiang, the XOOPS Lead Developer and his team at the 2008 Open Source Software Development Summit, China. It is the latest recognition for the XOOPS China community website and project development.The Summit will take place at the Xiyuan Hotel in Beijing, on ...

Thanks to the release of News 1.63 by Instant-Zero, and the added "Tag" capability, we have updated the XOOPS site to newest News release, and we have now "tagging" options on our site. As a result, we have "tagging" blocks on the right-hand side, showing the most popular tags. So next time when you're submitting News, please feel free to add your tags.Our future "Knowledge Base", the replacement for our FAQ, will be also "tag-capable", as well as the upcoming CBB 4.0.Happy Tagging

We are pleased to announce that Dirk Herrmann (dhsoft), the author of Simple-XOOPS and Administrator of XOOPS Germany, will be joining the XOOPS Core Team to become the Lead Maintainer for XOOPS 2.3, and then the Lead Developer for XOOPS 2.4. Dirk is one of the most innovative developers in the XOOPS world and has received recently the "XOOPS Innovator" Award for his work on Simple-XOOPS. The XOOPS 2.4 will be based to a big extend on his Simple-XOOPS work. This will result in some very excit...

JahArt Studio published its list of CMS TOP 40 of 2008.We were very pleased to see that XOOPS was listed as #6.This is a second good news in the last two days. This month XOOPS was ranked as #24 overall project and with that the #1 CMS project hosted at SourceForgeOur "Spread XOOPS" campaign will hopefully contribute to more visibility and recognition of XOOPS. Every little mention of XOOPS helps. Every positive article about XOOPS helps. Please join us in spreading word about XOOPS.We are lo...

The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.3.2This release is solely for a couple of critical security fixes, including an XSS vulnerability reported by Digital Research Group, potential local file inclusion vulnerability reported by DSG, Autologin bug reported by Dylian and a backward bug in data synchronization reported by boy0917.All XOOPS 2.3.x users are highly recommended to upgrade to this version ASAP.Patches for old versions might be available soon.Downlo...

In the last three weeks we had additional 5,000 downloads of the XOOPS 2.3.1. As the chart below shows, we have a very steady interest in this new version (we've reached the 5,000 downloads mark in the first two weeks, so this is only 1 week extra for the latest 5,000). This is a good sign, as most of the time software downloads peak in the first few weeks and then go down. We can also see the high interest in XOOPS by the download numbers of the XOOPS Uniform Server developed by Kris. In the...