All posts by Gingerling

I am a vegan, Free Software advocate from the UK. I enjoy writing technical documentation, video editing, blogging, promoting Free and Open Source Software and meeting new people. I also like cooking, painting, reading forgotten old books, talking and hanging out with my friends and family and with the small zoo that lives in my house (Cats, Dogs etc).

New Manual: Initial Chapter Outline Decided

During a fast-paced, productive meeting of the Documentation Team on Monday 14th of July, an initial chapter outline for the new phpList manual was decided. The team have agreed to spend the first chapters of the manual describing very basic tasks, including logging-in, sending a simple campaign and seeing how many people opened the message…. [+]

Documentation Style Guide

This is a style guide for phpList documentation. It will help us (the documentation team) keep some key elements of our writing consistent – which will make it more readable. Summary For consistency and legibility: phpList is always capitalised with a small php, a capital L and small ist: phpList. Any words you quote from… [+]

How to use the phpList community project managment tool

Our community project management tool, initially for use by the Documentation Team as they write a new manual, is a WordPress plugin with features such as Milestones, Task Lists and a Calendar. This plugin will help us to collaborate on large projects. To access it you need to have an account on community.phpList.com If you… [+]

Free phpList Helps Open Funding

phpList helps Free Culture Crowd Funding site communicate with the community. In January, GnuPG became the first to take us up on our offer of free phpList hosted for Free Software projects. Another fascinating project enjoying this perk is Open Funding.  Anna, the phpList community Manager, is on a mission to find out who they… [+]

The Open Source city rolls out phpList

The City of Munich adopts phpList phpList passes government technical and security tests with flying colours It’s more than 10 years since the city of Munich in Germany voted to use Free Software. Their ambitious plans to move from Microsoft Windows to Gnu/Linux based Ubuntu are now complete [1]. Yet the technological needs of the… [+]

A cracking good sprint

Our first API hackathon is winding up – here is what we did. A huge thanks to everyone who came! Sam Tuke did a great write up on his blog here. Six unit tests pushed to @PHPList‘s revamped API plugin today. Working with @bjwebb67, @annafjmorris, and @mdethmers https://t.co/kESJ6GBefu — Sam Tuke (@samtuke) June 15, 2014… [+]