“Ah, the joy. No more coding for the nth time a registration module. No messing with authentication
emails. No rewriting another openid library. No more. It's all there. Ready to use. Well documented.
Greatly structured. Amazing stuff. This is a game changer in my opinion.” — Nicola Paolucci
“I'm simply astounded by how far Pinax has come in the short time it's been around. The list of features is huge; I
think with a little more work Pinax could become a serious competitor to Plone or Drupal.” — Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django Co-BDFL
About Pinax
Pinax is an open-source collection of integrated, but reusable apps for the Django Web Framework.
By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.
Video of Talk on Pinax at DjangoCon 2008
While our initial development is focused around a demo social networking site, we are also working on number of editions tailored to intranets, learning management, software project management and more.
If you have any questions about the Pinax project, please contact James Tauber.
Developer Info
The source code has recently moved, see Download.
We're still using django-hotclub at Google Code in the short term for tickets and wiki.
We are working on Pinax documentation and you can also find documentation on the websites for individual apps.
We'd love you to join us and either contribute your own reusable Django apps or help us improve our existing ones.
Most discussion about Pinax takes place on the IRC channel #pinax on Freenode or the pinax-users mailing list on Google Groups.
Features
At this stage, there is:
- openid support
- email verification
- password management
- site announcements
- a notification framework
- user-to-user messaging
- friend invitation (both internal and external to the site)
- a basic twitter clone
- oembed support
- gravatar support
- interest groups (called tribes)
- projects with basic task and issue management
- threaded discussions
- wikis with multiple markup support
- blogging
- bookmarks
- tagging
- contact import (from vCard, Google or Yahoo)
- photo management
and much more coming...
Sites
We have been working on a social networking site that has now been launched as Cloud27.
Even though only a couple of months old, other people have already started building websites using Pinax. For example, see:
If you are building a Django-based website, you might consider checking out Pinax. Please contact us if we can help you in any way.
