pinax: a platform for rapidly developing websites http://pinaxproject.com/ Pinax is an open-source collection of re-usable apps for the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different. While our initial development is focused around a demo social networking site, we are also working on number of editions tailored to intranets, learning management, software project management and more. If you have any questions about the Pinax project, please contact James Tauber <jtauber@jtauber.com> or join us on the #pinax IRC channel on freenode or the pinax-users mailing list on Google Groups. DIRECTORY STRUCTURE projects/ complete_project/ a complete sample project and templates basic_project/ a more basic starter project apps/ external_apps/ external re-usable apps via svn:externals local_apps/ re-usable apps that aren't yet externalized libs/ external_libs/ contains external libraries docs/ documentation (using rst and sphinx; in progress) fixtures/ test fixtures (in progress) The photologue app requires PIL which is not included in external_libs There is some path manipulation in manage.py to get this all to work. You'll need to do something similar in your wsgi or mod_python configuration. Note that if you already have an external app or external lib on the path, you don't need to use the one we provide. With the exception of photos, things should just work out of the box. You can cd into projects/complete_project/ or projects/basic_project/ and run ./manage.py syncdb and ./manage.py runserver to get running immediately.