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Wasn't this how Django was born? A news agency needed a CMS and django was built.
by dalore 16y ago
Wasn't this how Django was born? A news agency needed a CMS and django was built.
- megaman821 16y agoThe Texas Tribune uses Django right now. I wonder if they will be building a CMS on top of it.
- natrius 16y agoWe've built a CMS using Django, and we'll be taking it from a custom hack to something that's widely usable, while fixing the gripes we've built up over the past year and a half.
- tswicegood 16y agoYes. We did and we are. :-) No need to reinvent the wheel here, so we're using what already has a proven track record in the newsroom.
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- andrewf 16y agoVarnish also came out of a newspaper - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)#History
- cdr 16y agoSort of - the Lawrence Journal-World built a CMS and then split it into the newspaper-specific part (http://www.ellingtoncms.com/ http://www.ellingtoncms.com/) and the more general part (Django). This Armstrong looks to be directly competing with Ellington.
- shii 16y agoAlso see DocumentCloud[1] (of Backbonejs, Underscorejs, and other-great-tools fame). Came out of NYT programmers like jashkenas [1]: http://www.documentcloud.org/about http://www.documentcloud.org/about [2]: http://www.documentcloud.org/opensource http://www.documentcloud.org/opensource
- jashkenas 16y agoDocumentCloud is also funded by the Knight Foundation, and hopefully there's some room for cooperation here. We'll see how it pans out, but I for one would love for Armstrong to integrate with the DocumentCloud API, in order to provide seamless document management, OCR, search, and annotation for the primary source docs behind Armstrong articles. I've been talking to Travis about it -- perhaps it's a bit of code we can contribute to the project. Other recent Knight-funded open source includes the excellent TileMill project: http://mapbox.github.com/tilemill/ http://mapbox.github.com/tilemill/ ... which, in another bit of cooperation, uses Backbone.js for its editing interface: http://developmentseed.github.com/TileMill/docs/tilemill.html http://developmentseed.github.com/TileMill/docs/tilemill.htm...
- tswicegood 16y agoI'm definitely hoping we can work this in too. We'd love to get this in once we figure out where it'll fit.
- tinio 16y agoagreed, here. DocumentCloud integration makes sense, and it's been something we've already been looking into at The Bay Citizen.