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When we set out to develop our site, we wanted a Web framework or "content management system" (CMS) that had lots of features "out of the box" while remaining infinitely flexible. Our scripting language of choice is Python. After reviewing several good Python frameworks, it was clear that Django fit best with our approach to Web development. (See their Design philosophies for details.)
One thing Django didn't include: a blogging app. (That's ok; this blog is only a small part of Blogcosm.) So, we wrote Blogmaker™, incorporating and/or modifying various off-the-shelf pieces as appropriate. It includes all of the blog features that are here at blog.blogcosm.com (but not the "reference" features elsewhere on our site). We just released it for free, under the open source BSD license.
At the moment, Blogmaker is aimed at a very specific audience: Python developers who are already using Django (or have been meaning to try it). We haven't included much in the way of documentation -- but at the very least it should be much faster to start with Blogmaker than develop something from scratch. (We also link to a few other starting points.)
By coincidence, James Bennett (whose comment_utils we include) recently addressed a question he hears often: Where is Django’s blog application? We agree with his conclusion: the right way to create a blogging solution in Django is with:
a collection of applications which, taken together, provide all the key functionality (while allowing a certain amount of mixing and matching in order to customize the finished product)
Blogmaker provides several useful pieces, and we chose a license that imposes very few restrictions on how those get used. We have additional features planned, and welcome contributions from others. Learn more.
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