Geeklog

Nextide is pleased to announce the release of the NexPro theme as a general public download. This is the same theme that is used in NexPro. It is a nice royal blue colour, and offers collapsible left and right blocks. Or, if you are on a page with limited screen real estate, you can collapse the whole left block pane completely! All of the collapses use the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) to give a smooth animation and add a great touch to your site. Click here for a sneak peak of the theme.

You can download the NexPro theme from Nextide Public Downloads, but please read the documentation first, as there are some required code changes you will need to perform in order to make the theme work fully. The documentation can be found here: NexPro Theme Documentation.

Enjoy!

FrOSCon is a 2-day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place on August 25th and 26th, 2007, in Sankt Augustin, Germany. This is the second time this conference is held. I was there last year and was pretty impressed by the quality of the presentations and the organisation of the conference.

In addition to the regular program (now online), FrOSCon also provides room for Open Source projects to hold their own user meetups. So this year, there will be a Geeklog Day at FrOSCon on Saturday, August 25, 2007.

With Geeklog 1.4.1 finally out, it's time to make plans for the next release. At which point we can't help realize (again), that our list of open feature requests is embarrassingly long. So it's about time we do something about it.

Fortunately, we just had an offer to support Geeklog development which lets us try out something new (for us at least): Bounties.

The idea is that we identify tasks that probably wouldn't get implemented otherwise and add some incentive to have someone jump in and implement them. In other words, contributors are getting a chance to get paid for their contribution to Geeklog (not much, but still ...).

Our friendly new sponsor, AOE media GmbH, has commited to a monthly donation for the duration this year. So now we need your help in identifying the things that you would like to see implemented. Please keep in mind that we're not looking for new ideas at this point, but that we want to reduce our backlog of feature requests.

We'd like to have that discussion in the forums mostly, so if you have any general questions or issues with the bounty system, please use this thread. To chip in your favorite feature request, please use this thread.

Once we've got an overview over the most-wanted tasks, we will probably set up a poll to figure out the exact order (keep in mind that we only have limited financial resources).

We're awaiting your feedback!