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How long have you been using Geeklog

Authored by: jkottler on Wednesday, February 18 2004 @ 11:00 am EST

I've just begun investigating Geeklog. I have a Zope site currently, which I like and am comfortable with, but I'm tired of my hosting fees. I have a free host available, with PHP and MySQL, but no Zope. I have looked at several CMS systems, including Drupal and Tikiwiki, but Geeklog has a lot of what I need and it seems a lot simpler than those others.

There are a few things I have been looking for in GL, and I think I have most of them worked out:

1) WYSIWYG entry. I'm a programmer, but nobody else associated with the site is. Nobody wanted to learn about wiki markup or Zope's Structured Text syntax, they're sure not going to want to mark their posts up in HTML. This seems to be solved (sorta) with htmlArea integration, but leaves my mac users (half of the site folks are on macs) out in the cold. However, I just found the bloggar API plugin, and that would be just fine. We windows types could use w.bloggar and I'm sure there's a client for OSX.

2) Group calendaring. I admit, when I created events with myself as the owner and a group that the other users are members of, I expected when I logged in as one of them to see the events on "My Calendar". I see integration with another calendar is in progress, but I may just try to hack the calendar query instead.

3) True community building. GL's forum plugin (if that's what I see running on all the GL sites) looks at least as nice as phpBB, so that's pretty good. But what about user blogs? Why can't I push ANY entry to the front page? What if there's something great on the forums? Why can't I just promote it to a front page story? Some of this only applies to my dreams for the future, not my current needs for the site, so I think GL is going to work out for now.

Plus, I like the attitude and community around here. Frankly, the Zope community, Tikiwiki community, and Drupal communites, along with GL, have all been friendly and supportive and generally a bunch of nice folks. I'd have dropped GL like a rock if it were hostile here, given that alternatives exist.

Oh, and the install was very smooth - on a remote host that I don't have root on. Nicely done, guys!

Group Calendar

Authored by: klync on Friday, February 27 2004 @ 03:05 pm EST

I hacked the existing calendar to manage events by group a little while
back - check in the downloads area, and you will find my diffs to 1.3.7 -
would make a good starting point. If you make diffs for a newer
version, I'm sure lots of people would appreciate it!

How long have you been using Geeklog

Authored by: jkottler on Tuesday, March 16 2004 @ 05:43 pm EST

It turns out that just removing personal calendars and adding the Site Calendar plugin has taken care of most of my calendar needs. I haven't yet attempted to integrate a WYSIWYG editor, but I'm intending to give Dirk's blogger API plugin a try so we can use blogging clients.

It should be noted that since my initial post, I've set up a 1.3.9rc3 site, updated it to the final, helped a friend set up his 1.3.8 site, and am planning a third.

Geeklog is good stuff, plain and simple.

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