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Anthony Pesce

Populous Code Released

I have an exciting, albeit brief, announcement to make about our progress on the Populous project (formerly known as the Community News Network). Today we publicly released all of our code, in alpha, on the social coding site GitHub. The entirely of our progress so far is there, which at this point is an extremely powerful and flexible content management system. We've released it under an open source BSD license, and highly encourage anyone interested to check it out and contribute. We're coding Populous in Django, a Python rapid development framework specifically designed to quickly build robust news sites. So...

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Media companies been trying to use technology to build new audiences and business models for ages now. Feels like too little, too late.

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