Just the other day I heard about two interesting Django projects. Ross Poulton, creator of the Django Sites website, is at it again. This time with a community site providing a centralized repository for Django Apps. Things are still baking on this one, so I don’t have a url to point you to at the moment, but keep an eye on Ross’ blog.
I’m especially excited about this project because this has been something on my personal ToDo list for some time. Ross did such a great job with Django Sites, I’m eager to see what he comes up with. For a while now I’ve been offering some Google Foo that I got off of the #django IRC Channel as a way to find needed apps. It is a relief because now I will have somewhere to point people when they are looking for an app, like Django-Tagging.
The next project is a Django App which not only will fill a nice void but also provide some best practices examples for creating your own apps. Collin Grady, James Bennett and others have teamed up to create Counterpoint, a Django Forums app. The need for a forum app comes up quite often, so I’m glad to see that these folks are cranking away on it. I got a chance to play around with a “live” version the other day and I was quite impressed.
It is great to see the community continue to build on such a great platform.
