Archive for March, 2009

XOOPS Forks re-unite with their "Mothership"

The XOOPS Project is experiencing something that probably none of the Open Source CMS projects have ever experienced: reunification with its forks. It’s typical in the Open Source environment that developers work on a project, but then have different ideas, and leave to create a fork. Most of the time they never come back. So it’s a sign of a visionary leadership of the current XOOPS team that they have reached out and were able to attract back three of its recent and most innovative forks: Simple-XOOPS under leadership of Dirk Herrmann from Germany (www.simple-xoops.de), EXM System under leadership of Eduardo Cortes from Mexico (www.exmsystem.org), and Zarilia under leadership of John Neill from UK. It is also a clear vote of confidence from the forks’ developers for the current leadership team of XOOPS and their direction. All of these forks are very innovative and will bring wealth of features back to XOOPS that will benefit XOOPS users for years to come, and will enhance the upcoming XOOPS 3.0 release

XOOPS Project releases Version 2.3.3

World’s leading Open Source CMS solution gets even better After over 25,000 downloads of its previous version in just three short months, the XOOPS Project, world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is aggressively building on this success and has released a new version of its award winning software – XOOPS 2.3.3. This release focused on bug fixes and usability improvements. Some of the major changes are: improved profile and pm modules improved installer improved theme improved tinymce editor The improved installer is the highlight of this release, providing an easy way to install not only the program, but also important modules. The key for this new release was an active collaboration of XOOPS developers from around the world: China, France, UK, USA, Germany, Peru, Libya, Belgium, Netherlands, and several others.

thePHP.cc, Fighting the Crisis with IT Quality

In times of tight budgets, quality is a key success factor to reduce risks in IT projects. Three successful IT consultants and trainers have joined forces and founded thePHP.cc, The PHP Consulting Company. thePHP.cc helps businesses and enterprises to reduce IT costs in the long term with Open Source technologies and PHP in particular. thePHP.cc supports their clients in improving their employee’s qualification to overcome skills shortages. The three founders of thePHP.cc have long-standing experience in consulting, coaching, and training and are sought-after speakers at international IT conferences. They previously helped clients such as Cisco and Digg as well as government agencies.