Django comes from the CMS world, and rolling your own isn't that hard. Nevertheless, we don't want to reinvent the wheel, so this is a solicitation for open source Django CMS efforts with active communities.
Our requirements:
- Must be powered by Django.
- Most be open source.
- Follows Django/Python best practices.
- Must be extensible.
- Elegant user interface.
- Renders humanely in FF, Safari, and IE 7, and 8. IE6 is a definite plus.
- Section 508 compliant or at least pretty close.
- No patching of Django to make things work.
- Must be able to run with PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Must have an active community. Which means that commits to the CMS need to have happened within the last two months.
- You must provide a featured sites list to be even considered as an option.
15 comments:
http://github.com/digi604/django-cms-2.0/ but you probably knew about this one already
I've heard a lot of really good things about feincms:
http://spinlock.ch/pub/feincms/
Well, probably not exactly all best practice, but it is work in progress (and my first site:))
http://www.kiind.nl (dutch)
code: lp:babyweb (launchpad)
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Yoram
Try feincms. Really.
Eric and BartTC, We can't even begin to consider feincms until someone points us at a list of feincms powered sites.
A few months ago I created a CMS apps comparison wiki page in the Django wiki for gathering information about solutions out there.
The page might not be up-to-date since I haven't followed the development of most of the projects mentioned there. Help appreciated :)
Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of FeinCMS-powered sites:
* http://www.co2-monitor.ch/
* http://www.kinderbetreuung-ja.ch
* http://www.sbbe.ch/
* http://www.gsoa.ch/
* http://www.nein-zu-neuen-akw.ch/
* http://www.talentscreen.ch
@akaihola: The CMS apps comparison is probably quite current, at least when it comes to Django-CMS2 and FeinCMS -- the main authors of either package have been seeing to that :-)
As part of News21, a Carnegie and Knight funded project, we created django-newsroom: http://code.google.com/p/django-newsroom/source/checkout
http://code.google.com/p/django-newsroom/source/browse/branches/pinax/INSTALL
* We have an elegant user interface and an interesting visual editor / page layout system.
* We've had great support along the way from the folks at LincolnLoop who have contributed to the best programming practices employed in the site.
* this is currently in use at http://news21.com
* we have started a user group here:
http://groups.google.com/group/django-newsroom
There still is some roughing out along the edges that need to happen (for instance, it currently requires PostgreSQL) but my colleagues and I will be willing to work to make this compliant.
The nice folks at Medium are threatening to release Message as Open Source which would be a fairly full featured CMS offering with a client base and Django foundation.
By they might be after exactly this type of promotion!!
Who knows....
I contacted messagecms.com for when they plan to open source their code and also a list of sample sites.
Django page CMS: http://code.google.com/p/django-page-cms/
It's a well tested CMS (85% test coverage)
So, which CMS system did you end up using ? I am curious as we are in the same step of our project planning .
Cheers,
@Arek - Thanks for the prompt! I'll aobut it in detail this week.
ooh, we're all in suspense out here! Go'an, throw us a bone ;-)
We picked Fein CMS based off of http://pydanny.blogspot.com/2009/11/picking-django-powered-cms.html.
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