3pd developers, extensions and Moovur
We get a lot of requests for Moovur integration in 3pd extensions by mail. Moovur was designed to make it very easy for 3pd developers to integrate Moovur into their products and we've written some serious documentation on how to do that.
The challenge is the following, we would love to have many Moovur plugins or integrations in 3pd extensions but we can't handle it all by ourselves since Moovur is a free extension and doesn't pay our bills.
We are currently looking Moovur RC2 to be released upcoming Friday, this will be a bugfix release and as it stands now no extra features will be added but you never know with a coder as Anthony. The idea for the version after that is to create an installer that will make it very easy to install language packs and Moovur plugins into your system.
With that installer we want to have a section on our site or forge where all the available Moovur plugins and language packs live so we can do some great install magic with them.
How can you help?
Contact your 3pd extension developers and ask them if they would be so kind to integrate Moovur directly or write a plugin for it. We are here to help them out where ever we can.
At the moment there is a plugin for jomsocial which is very popular and we have found the jomsocial developers willing to take over the maintenance of that plugin because they move very fast with developing their software and this way the Moovur plugin can be kept in sync with that. We will host the plugin and they will get some nice traffic in return and their users will be happy.
Jxtended is looking at integrating Moovur into their products, we've had requests for RSforms, Community Builder, Jambook, EasyBook and QContact so if you use these extensions please point the devs to this post and ask them with your most friendly voice to create a plugin too :-)
Let's make it a joint effort like it should be in Open Source land.
Moovum website technical
The Moovum site is a default Joomla! site running on a dedicated server (lighttpd and mysql). We have implemented some extensions to make the site running like the way we do. So far the most challenging of this site was creating the content and also create a proper design, both driven by the talent and dedication of Arno.
As there is no real good integrated forum solution for Joomla! we have selected a forum solution on our own. SMF is out of the question, this because of the lack of a proper bridge and their stance against the derivative work definition within Joomla! PHPBB would have been a logical choice, but we ended up with Phorum because of it's flexibility and ease of use when it comes to templating.
We have written a Phorum to Joomla! bride to integrate Phorum as if it is part of the Joomla! installation. To make that happen we have created a GPL'ed version of a Joomla! user plugin, and we have created a Phorum module (Apache 2.0 licenced) to make bi-directional login/logout and user management possible.
We have implemented Moovur (Joomla! extension that implements Mollom) to protect ourselves from the Spam maffia. You can download Moovur for free from this website. We provide a user manual, and a technical manual for developers to incorporate Moovur into their solutions to fight the spammers.
