Pinax Project and Cloud27
The initial growth of Pinax was helped by us building a demo social networking site, but it often led to confusion about Pinax the platform as opposed to Pinax the social networking site.
The demo social networking site was (and still is) at http://pinax.hotcluboffrance.com/ but that URL also confused people not familiar with the original django-hotclub mailing list I started to discuss how to better build reusable Django apps.
Furthermore, it was becoming clear that the demo social networking site was actually useful, not just as a demo of Pinax, but in its own right.
And so, a few weeks ago, I decided that the demo site should migrate to a new, standalone site and that Pinax, the platform, needed a home.
The former will soon be launched as Cloud27 which, at the moment, is just a splash screen, but which will eventually replace http://pinax.hotcluboffrance.com/. Users of Cloud27 need not necessarily care that Pinax is underlying the site.
That leaves a site about the Pinax platform to point people to. I just launched that this morning and it's available at:
http://pinaxproject.com/
This new domain is what anyone talking about Pinax should link to — it's the new home of Pinax itself.
Comments (1)
Last Modified: July 30, 2008
Author: James Tauber
Milan Andric on Aug. 18, 2008:
So this means that pinax will not have an "official demo site" at some point in the future. That works for me but seems like this post needed a bit of clarification. Maintaining cloud27 & a pinax demo site does seem like too much work. The question still remains; what is the future of pinaxproject.com? Will there be a blog or documentation, any plans? Just wondering. Seems like you can milk google-groups for all it's worth until you find a reason to use pinaxproject.com for something google-groups cannot offer. But not a demo site? ;)
The main value I found in the demo site was the ability to see what Pinax was capable of. Even though as a developer I knew it was only a subset of what could be done with and a specific implementation of the Pinax project. So it was quite useful to see an example of how things are tied together and had a decent wow factor. If Cloud27 can serve a similar purpose than you could kill two birds with one stone.
I imagine the cloud27 code base/implementation will slowly fork from Pinax. Is that how you imagine it?