Geeklog

As you have no doubt noticed, Geeklog development wasn't exactly going forward swiftly lately, mostly due to personal and job-related commitments of the current core team members. So we've decided to enlist more personnel:

Please welcome Oliver Spiesshofer (aka tokyoahead) and Michael Jervis (aka THEMike) as new members of the core Geeklog 1.3 development team. Mike and Oliver will replenish the current team, which consists of Tony, Blaine, Vinny, and this guy.

I'm still reluctant to give a timeframe, but the next steps towards Geeklog 1.3.12 will be to stabilize what we already have in CVS with the aim to release a beta version before we move on to release candidates. The idea of the beta being to get some feedback on some of the new features that are currently under development before we finalize them.

In the meantime, if you want to keep track of the development, you can subscribe to the geeklog-devtalk mailing list to which daily digests of the (closed) geeklog-devel mailing list are posted and join in on the discussions.

We have reached an agreement with Hendrickson Software Components, the company that has registered the name "SpamX" as a trademark:

We are going to change the display name of the plugin to Spam-X (with the hyphen) but keep the internal name as it is (so as not to break compatibility and complicate updates). We've also taken a few measures to keep the plugin's search engine ranking low so as not to confuse prospective buyers looking for the other SpamX product.

There will be an update of Geeklog's Spam-X plugin in the near future, that will - in addition to the cosmetic name change - also include new and updated modules for more effective blocking of comment spam.

I have just started to write an article about Geeklog at Wikipedia.org.

Without wanting to replace anything that is to be found on this site here, I think it is important to make Geeklog more known and to spread the word.

I invite everyone developing/contributing to geeklog to post a link to their site just as I did and to extend the article to give readers an impressive text about this impressive software! Let us tell the world that this is the greatest software for Weblog they can find by simply naming features, developers, plugins and everything else that is a part of it!