Media company to launch 15 new Django sites
This is huge news: The Scripps media company / newspaper chain is moving 15 of its news sites to use Django in the next year.
Scripps newspaper Web operations in Texas, New Mexico, California, Washington, Colorado, Tennessee, Indiana, Florida and South Carolina have licensed Ellington, the Django-powered content-management system created by World Online, the Kansas-based Web-development team that created Django in the first place.
Says Bob Benz, general manager of interactive media for Scripps newspapers: "It's going to give us a considerable competitive advantage."
Getting Django (and Python) onto so many more Real-World production sites is a huge win for the framework and the Python programming language. That list of Django-powered sites keeps growing and growing.
(Disclaimer: I helped create Ellington, but I no longer work for World Online and have no incentive to promote it, other than professional pride.)
Posted by Adrian Holovaty on March 29, 2006
Comments
Allan March 29, 2006 at 5:16 p.m.
Great news! GO Django!!
Dan March 31, 2006 at 9:20 a.m.
Congrats! I go to school at NJIT, and for my senior capstone project, I am the project manager (and lead programmmer) in charge of making an intranet site for a company, and we are using Django. It's so powerful it makes me giddy inside! AND: I make all my friends drool when i show them the automagic admin interface. DJANGO ROCKS! Thanks, and keep up the good work!
skeptic April 3, 2006 at 3:30 a.m.
This will be a good test to see if django runs outside of Kansas.
Simon Willison April 3, 2006 at 3:54 a.m.
Django seems to be running pretty well outside of Kansas - Chicago, Florida, Texas, Washington D.C., Colorado, California, Canada, China, India, Poland, Germany and more: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Dj...
George Song April 3, 2006 at 2:16 p.m.
It's also worth noting that we are successfully piloting projects using Django at their glitzier brother, Scripps Networks (Food Network, HGTV, DIY, Fine Living, etc.).
Also things are going well for a production project at CanWest MediaWorks (one of Canada's largest media conglomerates, news-centric).
Go Django!
P. Atkinson April 11, 2006 at 5:46 a.m.
Today, (11th April 2006) it's the first day that this project comes to the first place in the Google engine when you search after "django".
Great.... ;-)
Alex Bucur April 26, 2006 at 6:34 a.m.
Great :)
Pat from nuzgeeks.com April 15, 2007 at 6:19 p.m.
I'm no coder or programmer... only a freelance Journalist with a wknd and latenight non-profit-site for starving journalists. I can design and use HTML but no way I could use Django to built a CMS from a scratch. I just wish there was a poorman's Ellington.... any suggestions?
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Mike March 29, 2006 at 3:03 p.m.
Very good.