xoops annual report 2007

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Annual Report

2007


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Table of Contents

Foreword

Letter from the Project Leader, Taiwen Jiang

A year in review

XOOPS's 6 AnniversaryXOOPS Receives Award at INFO 2007

Events and community initiatives

XOOPS at Open Source Application ConferenceXOOPS at Beijing Open Source ForumXOOPS Malaysia WorkshopXOOPS, because the CMS's world is more extensiveXOOPS and Formulize module at FSOSS Conference 2007


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Letter

It has been a mixed year for XOOPS.

Looking back over 2007, we have learned what we can dowith XOOPS and what we can not, we have learned thegood way and the bad way of an open source project andwe are looking forward to the best way for XOOPS.

Through a painful process with lots of changes, finallyeach of us knows what to do in 2008, for personal life, forXOOPS and for open source.

2007 has been the year of change, 2008 will be the yearof revival.

Sincerely,

Taiwen JiangThe XOOPS Project Leader


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XOOPS 6th Anniversary

TEXT : Julio Napur PHOTO: XOOPS Official Logos

It has been more than six years since RC1 version was published.

The XOOPS Project was launched byKazumi Ono in 2001 and since that timeOno has been largely focusing much ofhis time in XOOPS Cube Project, anotherfork of XOOPS. However The XOOPScommunity has continued making steady

progress.

To get some perspective on XOOPS'shistory, I talked to Taiwen Jiang and someXOOPS contributors and did someresearch.

Kazumi Ono announced the eXtensibleObject Oriented Portal System givingXOOPS its start on December 06, 2001according to the sourceforge.net data.According to Ono, XOOPS 1 was

originally based off of PHPNuke 4.4.1 andMyPHPNuke 1.8.5. and

"About 70 - 80 percent ofthe code has been totallyrewritten from the groundup. We use object-orientedPHP throughout the wholepackage, thus the name

XOOPS. "XOOPS was one of the first open sourceapplications to adopt Object OrientedProgramming in a programminglanguage that didn't supportmethodology efficiently at that time ofPHP 4.

Thus, the first edition of XOOPS didn't workfunction correctly.

XOOPS 2 had better performance, it marked thebeginning of using a Smarty Template Engine, XOOPS 2also implemented a new debugging system andautomation of module configuration.

XOOPS 2 was a new and important application release

that is at the heart of the core for the currentdevelopment branch (2.0.X).

Where's XOOPS going?

It's interesting to look back at where XOOPS came from,

and what's been accomplished since its humblebeginnings in 2001 -- even-though most users are moreinterested today in where XOOPS will be going, than itshumble beginnings.

I think we've made tremendous progress since then.(also, at times we've made absolute nonsense)

"In 2007, the Core development teamhad mainly worked on maintenance ofthe legacy system. In 2008 we will focuson the next generation of XOOPS, theXOOPS 3.0 branch which has beendesigned for years. Now it is the time tomake it ready for public. Of course, we'lmaintain the current code base, whichis defined as 2.3 branch."


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XOOPS Receives Award at INFO 2007

TEXT : Salijapan PHOTO: INFO

Brazil December, 2007

SO PAULO - In the area of corporate software,three products are highlighted in the INFO2007 Awards: Netweaver by SAP; Delphi forPHP by Borland, and XOOPS by the XOOPSCommunity. An application for businessintelligence and application server, Netweaverwon 46% of the votes of readers of the INFOBusiness Intelligence category. According to

Gartner, SAP, the developer of Netweaver, is aworld leader in CRM (25.7% of the market),ERP (27% of the market) and in supply chain,with 19.7% of the market.

The integrated development environment forPHP Delphi by Borland, is another productwinner. With 53% of the readers voting for it inthe Development category. The software is thecombination of two names that strong existedin the market. It combines the workingmethods of Delphi, one of tools favorite ofprogrammers, with PHP, the leading language

for developing dynamic websites.

Delphi for PHP provides for the creation of applicationsfor the web with features and functions similar to whatit does on the desktop. Jose Rubens Tocci, president ofBorland for Latin America, states when Delphi for PHPwas launched this year it won instant success in Braziland its acceptance surprised even the team's localsubsidiary.

PHOTO:Left to Right: Claudia, GibaPhp, TheRpLima, Fabio Egas

Among the dozens of CMS (content managementsystems) available on the market, one of thehighlights is the XOOPS, an open source programproduced by the XOOPS Community. The readers ofINFO recognized this, devoting 37% of the votes to theproduct in the CMS category. According to GilbertoGaldino of XOOPSTotal, one of the groups ofdeveloping the tool in Brazil, the XOOPS community inBrazil is the second largest world (behind only theFrench) and has made major contribution in productdevelopment.

IMAGE: INFO. Table of CMS


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Events and community initiatives

We remember fantastic events around the world offers the ability to search and

view information regarding international events in which the XOOPS Projectparticipated.


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XOOPS at Open Source ApplicationConference

TEXT: Alessio Marinelli PHOTO: Mirco Curzi

Italia January 27th - 2007

The Universit Politecnica delle Marche held itsthe first seminar entitled Open SourceApplication at Aula Magna of the Faculty ofEngineering of Politecnica delle Marche, onJanuary 24, 2007.

XOOPS Italia was invited to give a talk onXOOPS. So our XOOPS Italia Staff has acceptedthe invitation. Eng. Alessio Marinelli (a.k.aDefkon1) and the collaboration with Ing. Curzi,PhD student at the same university hadsuccessfully conference.

"Our intervention on XOOPS was divided intotwo important parts:

The first part is was theoretical and useful for a

new person who discovers XOOPS. Thisconference part was managed by PhD Eng.Mirco Curzi (flymirco).

He presented a general concept of CMS, afterhe prepared a brief speech on XOOPS birth,then descending deeper presenting XOOPS(history, future developments andfunctionality) and the potential use in theproduction of XOOPS.

The second part was practical and managed byme, deepened types of content manageablewith XOOPS, showing an overview of examplesof uses of the system (ranging from personalsites to business solutions through thecommunity) and presenting a specific casestudy real engineering a site static in the pastXOOPS."

PHOTO:Mirco Curzi


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XOOPS at 2007 China Open SourceSoftware Summit

TEXT AND PHOTO: Taiwen Jiang

China March 27th, 2007

The Open Source Software Forum at 2007Software Innovation Summit Beijing wasoriginally initiated by XOOPS China Communityand finally turned to be a section of aconference hosted by some governmentalorganizations.

The Forum was held on March 27th, 2007. Guestspeakers including:

Christophe Bisciglia, senior engineer atGoogle;

Jim Grisanzio, Sun Microsystems,Community Manager, OpenSolarisEngineering;

Taiwen Jiang, lead developer on theXOOPS project;

Mike Olson, VP at Oracle and former CEOof SleepyCat Software;

Mikko Puhakka, founder of Open Tuesdayin Finland;

Calvin Sun, software developmentmanager at MySQL.

Nat Torkington, O'Reilly Radar andProgram Chair of OSCON;

Stephen Walli, consultant on Open Sourcesoftware and standards

PHOTO:Taiwen Jiang (D.J or phppp)


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XOOPS Malaysia Workshop(Lanjutan)

TEXT : Julio Napur PHOTO: Sumardi Shukor

Malaysia 2007

In 2007, Sumardi Shukor (aka. SMD) was atthe very successful workshops organisedby his XOOPS Malaysia Team which theyprovide specialised XOOPS Trainingservices for new users in diferentsorganization in his country.

Xoops Workshop (Beginner), Hospital KulimDate : November 05 - 06, 2007Venue : Hospital Kulim, Kedah.

Xoops Workshop (Advanced), Ministry OfHealthDate : October 23 - 26, 2007Venue : Shahzan Inn, Kuantan.

Xoops Workshop (Advanced), Ministry OfHealthDate : September 04 - 07, 2007Venue : The Emperor Hotel, Malacca.

Xoops Workshop (Advanced), Ministry OfHealthDate : June 27 - 30, 2007Venue : Pearl International Hotel, KualaLumpur.

PHOTO: XOOPS Malaysia Workshop at Lanjutan


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XOOPS at Venezuela Conference(Spanish presentation)

TEXT : Julio Napur PHOTO: Mara Vernica Lavieri

Venezuela July 27 30, 2007Conference: XOOPS, because the CMS's world is more extensive

Was the title of the presentation given by MaraVernica Lavieri at the V Foro Mundial deConocimiento Libre (Fifth World Forum of FreeKnowledge), an international event, open andincludes communities organized in conjunctionwith researchers, practitioners and users,

private companies and the GovernmentBolivariano (Venezuela).

The First World Forum of Free Knowledge beganin the year 2004 in the city of Caracas, andsince then has traveled to Kerala (India),Maracaibo and Maturin to bring communitiesthe knowledge, technology and the freedom ofinformation.

In November this year, The Fifth World Forum

was Held in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela where thepresentation about XOOPS was given byEngineer Mara Vernica Lavieri on November22th. Our friend Mara Vernica representedXOOPS Spanish Community and her LinuxVenezuela Group (activistasxsl) in thisconference.

She is a enthusiasts Free software and XOOPSSpanish contributor. She also lead a femalespanish web site called Entiendelas.

PHOTO: V Foro Mundial de Conocimiento Libre.


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XOOPS and Formulize module atFSOSS Conference 2007

TEXT : Julian Egelstaff PHOTO: FSOSS

Toronto, Canada October 25th 26th, 2007

Julian Egelstaff (aka. jegelstaff) gave a twohour workshop on building customapplications with XOOPS and Formulizemodule in the Free Software and OpenSource Symposium (FSOSS) at YorkUniversity.

FSOSS is now entering it's sixth year, andhas become a major event, this yearfeaturing such notable speakers as:

Bob Young, co-founder of RedHat andfounder of Lulu.com

Marcus Bornfreund, co-director ofCreative Commons, Canada

Marcel Gagn, author and Linux Journalcolumnist

Plus gurus and luminaries from a ton ofhot tech companies and projects,including:Nokia, OpenOffice, Mozilla, Facebook,IBM, Bryght and even that old start up,Microsoft

More info:

FSOSS 2007 HomepageDescription of the Formulize Workshop

PHOTO: Logo of FSOSS Conference.
http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2007/http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2007/presentationDetails.php?presentationID=17http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2007/presentationDetails.php?presentationID=17http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2007/

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