What is Pinax?
Pinax is an open source platform that integrates reusable Django apps and provides starter projects and infrastructure tools for everything from social networks to conference websites, and from intranets to online games.
In the present day world every website requires components like registration, openid support, some kind of groups,user profiles, etc. Pinax is a Django based platform which provides all these reusable components out ofthe box and allows developers to build on top of them. Such an approach helps developers to rapidly build websites and focus on core unique logic instead of reinventing the wheel in Django.
Pinax provides:
- Standard project layout for consistency and easy deployment
- Starter projects that can be used as the basis for any Django website as well as some tailored to community sites, company sites, intranets and sites in closed beta
- Reusable apps providing both back-end functionality and user-facing components
- Default templates to enable quick prototyping
Want to read more about Pinax and Django? Check out http://pinaxproject.com/
Pinax main features
- Openid support
- Email verification
- Password management
- Site announcements
- Notification framework
- User-to-user messaging
- Friend invitation
- Twitter clone
- oEmbed support
- Gravatar support
- Interest groups
- Task and issue management
- Threaded discussions
- Wikis
- Blogging
- Bookmarks
- Tagging
- Contact import
- Photo management