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…. [+]
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Meeting write up: Documentation team set to work on new manual.
On Friday afternoon we had our first meeting about the proposed new phpList manual. It was a little chaotic, but pretty much awesome! People mostly got to know the new tools and made sure they had accounts on the various websites that are needed for participation. Additionally, we hammed out our first thoughts as to… [+]
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… [+]
How to enable Google Authorship rich snippets on your phpList community blog
In a bid to be more “bling” on Google, we have enabled Google authorship on our community blog. Here’s a quick rundown what that means and how to use it. What is Google authorship? This is Google authorship in action: You can see the name of the post author (me!) in the search engine results… [+]
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… [+]
Testing collaborative project management app for manual writing
Some of you lovely folks have kindly agreed to help test a project management app in WordPress that might be able to help us organise the writing of a new phpList manual this summer. Here are some instructions to help us get started with our examination of the app 1) Go to the testing site… [+]
phpList t-shirts: a call for cool
In a few weeks time, our documentation team will be starting work on a band new phpList manual. It’s a new team and a big task – so we have decided to create a cool gift to give them on manual- launch-day. The plan is to give away some phpList t-shirts… but, not your common-garden-branded… [+]
phpList 3.0.6 is released
The phpList team is pleased to announce a new version of phpList, 3.0.6. This version is a bugfix and security release, which also includes new and updated translations, including German, Russian and Italian. We fixed several smaller issues and also a security issue that was discovered by David Sopas. We appreciate his careful handling of… [+]