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Hi all,

I've been using geeklog for a while on my personal projects (haven't made any announcements yet, a bit too embarrassed about the state of my content), and after running 6 or 7 installs I decided to start taking apart the code. I have a CMS application that I've been wanting to develop for years and it looks like geeklog is probably the closest thing to it. But I would like to make the following 2 changes at a bare minimum:

1) turn articles, polls, and the calendar into plugins; make base install carry only user authentication, search, site stats, theme functionality, etc. This would make it less of a weblog system and more of a CMS.

2) improve the ability to run several sites off of one basic geeklog installation, so that when the base install is updated, all of the sites can be updated at once (and custom hacks can be propogated through all sites at once, if needed). I would find this helpful since it's a pain to update all of my sites every time a new release comes out.

Can anyone tell me if these changes or something like them are being considered for geeklog 2? Or is there another project I should look at that might suit my purposes better? I would like to contribute to the geeklog project if it seems like these changes are compatible with the current plan.

Thanks,

Chris

We are currently working on an internationalization/localization requirements document for Geeklog 2. The debate is that we would like to use PHP support for gettext() as a standard but we aren't sure how many of you out there (even you english-only folks) this will effect. How do you find out? Create a simple PHP page with [code]<?php phpinfo(); ?>[/code] in it and view it. Then do a search for gettext and see if you have it enabled. We'd prefer to use gettext() but if there are enough of you who's ISP doesn't support it we could build in support for the current translation method (with minor improvements).

If you peruse the Got Geeked section of our site, you notice a lot of hobbyists posting on the accomplishments with Geeklog. Each week we watch in amazement at how the Geeklog userbase continues to grows and we appreciate how far we have come in the past few years.

However, this begs the question "Is Geeklog ready for Enterprise Action?". We have seen nor heard of very many uses of Geeklog in businesses or organizations. Is Geeklog being used in that arena? If so what are it's strengths and weaknesses on a more professional level? Also, if you do use Geeklog in this manner, a link or - in the case of intranets - a description of how you use it would be appreciated.