Not at all :-) For the site we use: feedparser (nearly obviously for the feed parsing - it's unbeatable) beautifulsoup django-command-extensions django-batchadmin (which I'm very happy to see makes it into Django 1.1) django-mptt (for our menu system) djangodblog PIL threadpool SSLMiddleware
For deployment we're using a combination of Paver (with some of our own add-ons), Fabric and virtualenv - all of it works really well together and makes deployment so much easier. Besides that we have a growing common code base for all our sites, that contains all the base components you just need in a site (menus + breadcrumbs generation, a more flexible flatpages app with TinyMCE editor, searching etc). Most of our code base, I'd like to release as open source, but it's quite a big task for the initial stuff we did, which is basically where it gets stuck. The new applications we are doing, we have much greater focus on making them open source, so hopefully you should see small apps coming from us in a not so distant future (ESO is after all funded with tax money ;-). Cheers, Lars On Apr 23, 3:34 pm, Zain Memon <z...@inzain.net> wrote: > Cool! Mind sharing the names of any open source django apps you used? > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:09 AM, larsholm <l...@hankat.dk> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > Allow me to advertise for our new Django based site: > >http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org > > > Keeping up-to-date with cutting-edge astronomy and space science > > breakthroughs has just become that much easier, thanks to the Portal > > To The Universe, the latest Cornerstone project of the International > > Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). > > > On the tech side it basically boils down to a content-specific feed > > aggregator with a number of important add-ons: > > - human moderation to feature high quality content. > > - embargoed press releases for journalists with login (works in much > > the same way as when journalists can be invited to watch new movies a > > day before everybody else). > > - the RSS crawler is fast and updated very often to keep up-to-date > > with the news development during the day. > > > This is our third major Django-based website we have done here at ESO > > - European Southern Observatory (located in Munich, Germany), and we > > naturally have more websites with astronomy content in the pipeline. > > > Thanks for viewing! > > > Lars Holm Nielsen <lniel...@eso.org> > > ESO - European Southern Observatory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
