Original author(s) Initial release May 2008 (2008-05) | Developer(s) The Pinax community Written in Python | |
Stable release 16.04 / April 29, 2016; 10 months ago (2016-04-29) Type Web development platform | ||
Pinax is an open source platform for rapidly developing websites, based on the Django web application framework, written in Python, and created by James Tauber.
It came out of an effort to further the use of reusable apps, to make a more accessible bundle of the many components already available for Django, and enabling rapid development of different kinds of web sites.
During its initial development, Pinax was used to create a social networking web site, later spun off as Cloud27.
Pinax is influential in the Django community, being used e.g. to build the DjangoCon and PyCon web sites. It could be seen as a competitor to large, open source, content management frameworks such as Drupal and Plone.
Pinax was initially announced with the name Tabula Rasa, but it was changed to Pinax a few days later.