We are building a server to provide open source collaborative tools to social projects. The idea is to offer a free package of basic tools to cover the main needs of non-tech collectives, and then offer paid services for consultancy, customization and bigger projects.
We are looking for a main tool that serves as a base of administration. A tool easy to install for us server admins and easy to administrate for the projects's admins. A tool able to integrate applications saving trouble of different admin areas, users registering many times and all thos things that generate frustration in non-geek users (and many not-so-non-geek as well)
Geeklog would be possibly the perfect candidate (we only miss today a wiki plugin and few modules that actually are not so essential), but there is a point that maybe lead us to another CMS such as ¿PostNuke?
What do we do when we have 100 GL's installed in a server?Do you have any experience of multiple tools working in the same box? We have kind of fear of the lots of requests that the MySQL server would need to respond, but this is not the main issue.
The question is how to upgrade versions or introduce patches to all the GLs you have in the server.
We won't need to share databases such as users or articles, since every collective would have their own weblog, without any share of users or articles or... But, is it there a way to make all thos frontends rely on the same installation, in a way that any upgrade introduced would apply to all the instances?
It seems that PostNuke does, and if it is complex to build this system on GL then we will possibly have no other option than step to PN.
I hope there is a way because -personally- I really like GL.
(if you're interested in this project there is a rough non-updated overview <a href="http://www.openmute.org">here</a>