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A bit behind in the news but, as announced at e107.org here.

As announced at e107.org here.

I ported the Autumn theme to e107. It's another one of many themes designed by Denise Mitchinson.

If interested, you can download it here: -link-

I ported the SwanSong theme by Denise Mitchinson. For a while I used this theme for my blog site. Even though I still like it, recently I decided it's time for a change.

If interested, you can download it here: -link-

e107.org has announced release of v0.7.9, primarily for bug fixes. You can download full install and upgrade packages here.

Following on from the success of the inaugural Open Source Content Management System Award, UK publisher Packt is pleased to announce details of its follow up. With new categories and an increase in prize money, the 2007 Open Source CMS Award will launch on July 16 and is expected to appeal to a broader range of projects.

The 2006 Open Source CMS Award was designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an open source Content Management System (CMS) selected by a panel of judges and visitors to -link- Following 72 nominations and 15,000 votes, Joomla! was eventually declared the winner. The 2007 Award will continue to support open source Content Management Systems and in order to reward more than one project, Packt has developed new categories for a wider variety of CMS ’s to benefit from. These are broken down into five different categories including the overall winner and the most promising Open Source CMS.

2007 Open Source CMS Award Launched with $20,000 Prize Fund
Following on from the success of the inaugural Open Source Content Management System Award, UK publisher Packt is pleased to announce details of its follow up. With new categories and an increase in prize money, the 2007 Open Source CMS Award will launch on July 16 and is expected to appeal to a broader range of projects.

The 2006 Open Source CMS Award was designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an open source Content Management System (CMS) selected by a panel of judges and visitors to -link- Following 72 nominations and 15,000 votes, Joomla! was eventually declared the winner. The 2007 Award will continue to support open source Content Management Systems and in order to reward more than one project, Packt has developed new categories for a wider variety of CMS ’s to benefit from. These are broken down into five different categories including the overall winner and the most promising Open Source CMS.

* Overall Winner
* Most Promising Open Source CMS
* Best Open Source PHP CMS
* Best Other Open Source CMS
* Best Social Networking CMS


"For this year’s Awards, we wanted to support and give more exposure to a broader range of open source Content Management Systems" explains Packt’s marketing manager, Damian Carvill. "We received a fantastic response to last year's Award and it confirmed our view that there is an impressive number of professional level open source Content Management Systems with large and enthusiastic communities."

Packt has doubled the Award fund for 2007 with $20,000 divided amongst the five winners. The overall winner will receive $5,000, with second and third places receiving $3,000 and $2,000 respectively. The most promising Open Source CMS will receive $2,000 with two runners up each receiving $1,000. The winners of the remaining three categories will each be awarded $2,000.

Packt has opened up the nominations for people to submit their favourite Content Management System at -link-

For more information about this year ’s Award, please visit: -link-

If you're using 0.7.8, be sure to apply the security patch as announced here.

The e107 toplist is launched 1 week ago, and it has many news:
Now you can select from 10 buttons, you can see the last 10 registered sites, and the google pagerank of the registered sites.
And this is not over, there will be more function, statistics, and we're building a tagcloud for the topsites.
http://e107top.org


[Submitted by avvoltoio]

This shortcode allows you to rate the news items

Download and see it in action at aureea site

Instructions:

1. Put this file in your current theme folder
2. Edit your theme.php and insert a line that contains:

3. In your news_style put the (RATENEWS) shortcode where you want to display the rating.
4. That's all.

To see this in action, see this page and rate it.
[Submitted by victorcastelan]

Improvement to userclasses in admin -> user -> userclasses.
Changes to make possible to admin choose wich classes can the users see. Usefull when admin does not want users to see all the classes that they belong, but only the ones they should choose.
For instance in pm to send to a userclass.
More info here -link-
Submitted by dolphin713

e107.zip