Django Poised to Take Over the Web With New Foundation
Django, one of our favorite web frameworks, has announced a new Django Foundation designed to oversee the project similar to the way Mozilla and the Apache foundation work. The Django Foundation will also accept donations and pay individuals.
The founding board members of the foundation are Django’s co-creators Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss, as well as Dan Cox.
According the announcement, The foundation’s goals are to:
- Support development of Django by sponsoring sprints, meetups, gatherings and community events.
- Promote the use of Django among the world-wide Web development community.
- Protect the intellectual property and the framework’s long-term viability.
- Advance the state of the art in Web development.
This should be good news for Django developers since it puts a much stronger, uh, foundation in place and shows that Django is here to stay. It also creates a way for interested large companies to offer grant money to Django. Companies like IBM and Sun often give money to open-source foundations in an effort to speed development.
Perhaps even more exciting for Django fans though is news that roadmap to 1.0 has been announced. Although the developers caution that the date is subject to change, if all goes well Django should be have a 1.0 release in September 2008.
That means many long awaited improvements (like the newforms-admin branch) should be rolled into the Django trunk code relatively soon.
We’re currently hard at work on some tutorials guiding you through the Django development stack so stay tuned to the Webmonkey RSS feeds for more details and congratulations to the Django team on the new Foundation.
[via Lawrence-Journal World (where Django was originally developed)]
