0.0.12 and 0.0.11 should be fine, but he says he isn't able to activate the plugin. Are you seeing any messages in the server console when you click activate?

If you don't have an emailer setup follow this http://community.nodebb.org/topic/1008/#7372

Ask, and ye shall receive hmm lemme try @testerool any chance of translating a language pack for us? I can walk you through it or you can have a look at the spanish/french/german translations as a guide in the public/language folder

You have to use something like supervisor or forever to start the application, then it will keep running even if you close the shell.