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 . 

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