On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <emperorce...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Russell Keith-Magee > <russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: >> >> >> So - if you think there's a need for a showcase site -- go ahead and build >> it! >> > > http://www.djangosites.org/ has been around quite a while IIRC? I remember > it being around four or five years ago. Is it still active?
Well, the site has been around for a while, and is still up. It's even linked from the current homepage (indirectly -- you have to go via the wiki). I can't comment on how actively it's being maintained. However, while it's a reasonable index, but I don't think it's a very good showcase -- at least, not in it's current form. The first page you see on the site lists a bunch of sites I've never heard of. The 5 "Highest rated" sites are apparently: paste DjangoSites, SuggestionBox, Chesspark, and Music Discipline. These may all be fine sites, but if I were trying to showcase commercial usage of Django, I'd start with sites that people have actually heard of -- sites like Mozilla, Disqus, Pinterest and Instagram. As far as I can make out, none of these 4 are even in the djangosites index. So - Djangosites might be the starting point for a showcase site; but it needs a whole lot of attention before it's "front page" material, IMHO. In particular, it needs some editorial control -- someone who is actively selecting content that showcases the best of Django, rather than relying on the community to hopefully contribute and promote good sites. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
