Another month, and another issue of  the WOX (World of XOOPS) Newsletter (see here previous versions ). We continue to appreciate your comments, feedback, and improvement suggestions, as we want WOX to be the best publication for XOOPS Users. There are several very exciting things that happened in May, and we hope that June will be even better!

1) In month of May we continued with building up our XOOPS Board of Advisors . We were very lucky in engaging three outstanding individuals to join our Board of Advisors, in addition to XOOPS Founder, Onokazu:

• Justin Erenkrantz, President of Apache Software Foundation
• Prof. Alan C. Moore from Kentucky State University
• Richard Fontana, a lawyer from Red Hat specializing in Open Source issues

 Please help us to welcome them  to the XOOPS family!!!

2) The second exciting news was that we have created a " XOOPS Hall of Fame ", to recognize people who provided in the past extraordinary support and dedication for XOOPS, and helped to move XOOPS forward. It is just a small token of appreciation for all the hours they've spent on making XOOPS what it is today - one of the world's finest Web portal systems around!

The 2008 Inductees to XOOPS Hall of Fame:

• Kazumi Ono (onokazu) - Founder: Creator of the XOOPS Project, Project Leader and Lead Developer for XOOPS 1.* and 2.0 branch
• Goghs Cheng (goghs) - Co-Founder: Co-creator of XOOPS Project, core developer for XOOPS 1.*
• Skalpa Keo (Skalpa) - Lead Developer and Project Leader: maintainer for XOOPS 2.06+, architect for XOOPS 3
• Jan Pedersen (Mithrandir) - Lead Developer for XOOPS 2.2 branch

Please join us in thanking them for all the hard work they did, for all their support and dedication to XOOPS!!!!

3) SourceForge 2008 Community Awards voting is in place. Don't forget to vote for XOOPS!!!   ( click here... )

4) We continue with the XOOPS Innovation Award - for people who create something very unique and innovative for XOOPS. 
This time for Ricardo Costa ( Trabis ) and Simon Roberts ( Wishcraft )

5) The " XOOPSer of the Month " is Rune Hauge ( Runeher ), for his countless modules, his work on the International Support Team, and his contributions to XOOPS support sites in Norway, Denmark, and Nordic area.  

In this issue:

New XOOPS developments
AWARDS/Recognitions
XOOPSer of the Month
XOOPS Innovation Awards
New Modules
New Hacks
Security Issues/Alerts
YAXS - Sites Using Xoops!
Tutorials/Add-ons
New/Updated Themes
News from around the World
Xoops International Support Sites
How to contribute