Doing the API sprint… This weekend there is an API hackathon (which will be superfun for all to be sure) where some phpList users and developers, including some of the Open Funding crowd, are going to spend some time improving the phpList API. Here are the instructions on how to join in: Where to meet… [+]
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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… [+]
Free Culture: Free Society (Free Font!)
Today is Culture Freedom Day! Hurrah! To celebrate, we have launched our newly improved logo, which features an Open Font Licensed typeface. To celebrate even harder, we have interviewed the font’s designer: Please give a warm (digital) welcome to Marco, the designer of our new, favourite, and totally Open Source font! Anna: How long have… [+]
Building this Community Site
Hi all, just a quick blog to say that we have now opened up the development/beta/testing version of this site to everyone. This allows us to work together better on building the site, testing new features and plugins etc. You can visit the dev site here. And the login info is user: community-user password: 50ddecd… [+]
Social Media Tips: how to make a tweet this link with ready-made text
Social media buttons are an important, for example they: Help people share your content Provide a familiar feature Provide ways for people to interact further with you Help you gain more twitter followers Help spread your message further One useful type of social media button or link, like this one here, provides some ready-made text… [+]
Document Freedom Day Review: On being Famous (or just on my photo being in Linux Voice)
It’s been just over a month since Document Freedom Day (DFD), the global celebration of Open Standards run by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). You may have been to a DFD event yourself, or perhaps you saw our blog and infographic. This month, DFD has been given yet more much needed publicity by Linux… [+]
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… [+]
How to get help on the forums
If you are not especially familiar with a topic, it can be difficult to explain a problem or question about the topic to someone who is very familiar with it. For example, if you are trying to explain a problem with your car to your car mechanic, you may end up saying something like “It… [+]
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… [+]
Security Update – we dealt with Heartbleed promptly
You have probably heard of the Heartbleed bug by now. Described as “Catastrophic” by the experts, this tiny coding error was affecting 66% of all web servers. Of course, our phpList techies were on top of this right away. It took around 6 hours for us to update our servers, and all SSL certs were… [+]