May 6, 2010 Posted by Herko

Xoops Foundation LLC loses its civil lawsuit against Stichting XOOPS and Herko Coomans

On april 21st 2010 the Court of Zwolle-Lelystad in The Nether­lands ruled in the civil law­suit that US-based Xoops Foun­da­tion LLC started against Sticht­ing XOOPS (Dutch for XOOPS Foun­da­tion) and Herko Coomans, chair­man of Sticht­ing XOOPS and for­merly an active vol­un­teer in the inter­na­tional XOOPS com­mu­nity and the XOOPS.org web­site. In its rul­ing, the Court dis­missed... read more

Dec 31, 2007 Posted by Herko

The case against organised leadership in open source communities

Every­thing you say tho seems to me to be a point for my per­sonal case *against* organ­ised lead­er­ship within the XOOPS com­mu­nity. Espe­cially since cre­at­ing a hier­ar­chy and orga­ni­za­tion is it’s pri­mary *goal* and not a tool to accom­plish the actual goal: to develop a world-class prod­uct, and pro­vide great com­mu­nity sup­port, all in the spirit of open source... read more