Announcements

The Geeklog Team would like to announce that the first beta release of Geeklog 1.5.0 is now available for download. This release incorporates the results of last year's Google Summer of Code, namely:

• New user-friendly install script by Matt West
• New Configuration GUI (replacing config.php) by Aaron Blankstein
• New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol by Ramnath R. Iyer

Geeklog 1.5.0 also provides support for OpenID and LDAP, includes FCKeditor 2.6, and much more.

A word of warning, though: We are releasing this beta version in an attempt to keep the schedule we announced earlier, i.e. having a new release out by the time the coding starts for this year's Summer of Code. It is not finished yet.

Nextide is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the nexPro Portal suite of products for the Geeklog Community. A complete range of standard as well as custom services are also available to address your support requirements. We, at Nextide, have been using Geeklog as a base development framework for our client projects over the past few years. This has given us the opportunity to create a pre-integrated version of Geeklog and nexPro Portal. In addition, nexPro Portal includes a number of components that are well suited for business oriented applications as well as community sites.

Some of the key new plugins and features include:

• nexForm: Dynamic online forms and Form Editor
• nexFlow: workflow engine to automate form review, approval and business processes
• nexFile: Document management with version control and advanced admin features
• nexList: List administration and used as core admin tool for other plugins
• nexMenu: Dynamic site menu administration
• pre-integrated with the forum and the captcha plugins

Visit us at www.nextide.ca

I have created RPM packages for Geeklog 1.4.1, Forum 2.7, Filemgmt 1.5.2, Captcha 3.0.2 and Media Gallery 1.5.0. Packages do install all software within /etc/geeklog, /usr/share/geeklog, /var/lib/geeklog and /var/log/geeklog directories, trying to stick as much as possible with the FHS 2.3 (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard). Basically anyone with minimal skills (to know hoe to use mysqladmin, mysql and any text editor) and with a working Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux 5 based OS (CentOS 5, etc.) may install Geeklog, Forum, Filemgnt, Captcha and Media Gallery in less than three minutes.

Software repository for fresh and new Geeklog installations, with RPM and SRPM packages, courtesy of Alcance Libre, is located at: http://www.alcancelibre.org/al/webapps/.