Geeklog has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code(tm) 2010. After 2007, 2008, and 2009, this is now our fourth year on this program:

Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Historically, the program has brought together over 3,400 students with over 200 open source projects, to create millions of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its sixth year.

Student applications will be accepted starting March 29. Students interested in working on Geeklog, please have a look at our ideas page and feel free to use any of the contacts listed there to get in touch, starting now. Also, don't forget to check out Google's extensive FAQ.

We're very happy to be back in the Summer of Code and would like to thank Google for having us again. We're also looking forward to working with students over the next couple of weeks (during the application phase and beyond). So now let's hear all those great ideas you have for Geeklog :)

Three months from now, Geeklog will celebrate its 10th birthday. If you've never done it before, you may want to scroll down to the end of the history file that ships with Geeklog and look at the first entry there, dated June 17, 2000.

A lot has changed in those 10 years. Lots of new CMS have sprung up. Some have disappeared again, others have overtaken Geeklog. But despite claims to the contrary, we are still here, alive and kicking. Another thing that hasn't changed is our focus on security. Geeklog's original author, Jason Whittenburg, wrote it for a security portal after all. This heritage has always been our guideline in developing Geeklog, sometimes (as some may say) even to the point of inconveniencing our users for the sake of security. Geeklog provides a feature set comparable to that of other CMS, but security was always the feature that would set us apart.

So we've decided to (finally) reflect that in our slogan as well. After some brainstorming on the geeklog-devel mailing list, the winning entry was

Geeklog - The secure CMS.

Yes, that's a bold claim. And we fully expect that someone out there will see that as a challenge. We're aiming high and we're confident that with the help of our great user community we'll achieve the goal implicit in this new slogan.

If you've ever installed an aging plugin/addon and found it incompatible - worse found your geeklog site down.

You may have found it hard to disable the offending extension.

This tool is for you. Options include:

• Enable/Disable Plugins
• Enable/Disable Blocks
• Edit Select $_CONF Values
• Reset Admin Password

More info and download here.

Hope it helps ;)

-s