[BangPypers] [ANN][X-Post] SciPy India conference in Dec. 2009

[Pradeep Gowda]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Pradeep Gowda <pradeep at btbytes.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [..]
>>> If there are good CMS softwares in Python then why nobody in this
>>> group hasn't named a single one other than Plone?
>> [..]
>
> There is Skeletonz http://orangoo.com/skeletonz/
>
> Which is pretty "user friendly" from the demos I see.
>
> Some of the sites built using are :
> http://aspuru.unix.fas.harvard.edu/About/ and http://birc.au.dk/
> which are pretty good looking sites and they are also similar to the
> demography of the site maintainers of FOSEE.
>
> Skeletonz's developer is amix.dk who is a well known python dev (Plurk
> project etc.,)
>
> And of course there is Zine whose administrative interface is closely
> modeled after wordpress to help people
> transition over from WP.
>
> Our own Jace uses it to power his blog - http://jace.zaiki.in
> The source for some of his improvements  can be found here :
> http://bitbucket.org/jace
>
> Zine is also very easy to template because it uses JInja (a templating
> language inspired by Django's templating).
>
> MoinMoin is a good candidate too, if you know how to create new
> templates and hide the "wiki" artefacts like navigation elements.
>
> There are more, let me know what are the parameters you are using to
> choose your own ;)

I'm replying to my own post here.. But wanted to add:

Zine's website is : http://zine.pocoo.org
Zine is not *just* a blogging software.
Zine can be configured to have a "fixed" home page and sections and of
course a blog/news.
The advantage of using Zine is, it is a WSGI aware server which can be
wired together with other software including
those built using django/pylons/zope etc.,

Zine is primarily developed by Armin Ronacher who has also brought to
us Pygments (syntax highlighting),
Sphinx (the official python documentation framework), so zine has some
serious muscles behind it.

+PG