django-organice 0.4.0

All-in-one collaboration solution providing an intuitive, consistent user experience.

django Organice

All-in-one collaboration solution. For non-profit organizations, sports clubs, small to medium-sized businesses.

django Organice is a nice way to run a collaboration platform, an intranet, and websites for your business. It’s a compilation of the best Django packages, preconfigured for getting you started quickly. Being powered by the well-known Django Web framework it’s a safe choice for your IT investment providing an easily extensible architecture.

Fundamental Features

• Enables everyone to contribute to your content—while retaining your full control.

• Supports all four common collaboration and support patterns in several ways:

  1. Active contribution (create content, contribute corrections)

  2. Passive contribution (report issues, assign tasks, provide feedback)

  3. Active consumption (search and browse for content)

  4. Passive consumption (subscribe to notifications)

• Continually involves, helps and optimally supports your collaborators by sending out reminders, editing and submission hints to avoid losing traction or interest.

Core Components

Major components of django Organice are:

• Django Web framework

• full-featured content management (django CMS)

• full-featured versatile blog (Zinnia, cmsplugin)

• events with event calendar (via Zinnia)

• flexible contact pages (cmsplugin)

• link collection pages

• full-featured newsletter (Emencia)

• todo/issue lists

• social login and user profiles (allauth)

• generic analytics support (analytical)

• web analytics respecting your privacy (Piwik integration)

• multiple themes (available for free at http://organice.io/themes)

• multi-language support

• multiple websites support

• database support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and more

Roadmap

We are thrilled to get these awesome features out to you:

• group spaces with automatic mailing list ([e-mail])

• documentation area / wiki (probably by use of CMS functionality)

• discussion forum / Q&A board (Askbot, Misago)

• content download for magazine generation

• unobtrusive, integrated, transparent document and asset management

• DropBox, ownCloud, Windows OneDrive, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, etc. integration

• fully integrated search (Haystack)

• live chat or chat integration

• surveys (django-crowdsourcing, ntusurvey)

Who is using django Organice?

Examples of websites running django Organice:

• Organice.io website

• Organice demo site

• Kreuzlingen Rudolf Steiner school

Download and Contributions

Official repositories: (kept in sync)

1. Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/organice/django-organice

2. GitHub: https://github.com/Organice/django-organice

Getting Help

• Documentation is available at http://docs.organice.io

• Questions? Please use StackOverflow. Tag your questions with django-organice.

• Found a bug? Please use either the Bitbucket or GitHub issue tracker (you choose)

• Need support? You’re welcome to use our Gitter chat room.

History

0.4

• Use djangocms-maps (instead of djangocms-googlemap)

• Add a simple type of editorial workflow (via user groups and CMS permissions)

• Upgrade Zinnia templates (django-organice-theme)

• Upgrade and add more social auth providers (django-allauth)

• Upgrade to Django 1.8.14, django CMS 3.3.2, Zinnia 0.16

• Add ability to generate Nginx deployment configuration

Changes:

https://github.com/Organice/django-organice/compare/v0.3…v0.4

Dependencies:

https://github.com/Organice/django-organice/blob/v0.4/docs/requirements.txt

0.3

• Disable Contact Page plugin (to be replaced by forms builder) – planned for v0.5

• Disable Mediatree component (needs upgrade to Python 3) – planned for v0.5

• Disable Newsletter component (needs upgrade to Python 3) – planned for v0.5

• Add Python 3 support

• Switch from develop/master model to feature branching model (default branch: master)

• Migrate project to Django 1.8.8 and django CMS 3.2

• Add sample content loading (first using fixtures, later converted to management command)

• Integration of Piwik open source analytics (optional via django-analytical)

• Add some test coverage, finally!

• Start with continuous builds (Travis-CI, Shippable)

Changes:

https://github.com/Organice/django-organice/compare/v0.2…v0.3

Dependencies:

https://github.com/Organice/django-organice/blob/v0.3/docs/requirements.txt

0.2

• Project-level Makefile

• Automation of translation processes with Transifex (for documentation only)

• New options for settings (ORGANICE_URL_PATH_…)

• Newsletter editor configuration, newsletter template sample

• Add social login and user profiles (django-allauth)

• Add assets pipeline (bootstrap-sass, Compass, UglifyJS v2)

• Upgrade jQuery to v1.11.0, template overhaul with Bootstrap

• Add language selection dropdown menu

• Migrate theme data (templates, styles, and javascript) and assets pipeline to separate projects

• Generation of server configuration (lighttpd) and more options in organice-setup

• Add media management (django-media-tree)

• Add todo lists (django-todo)

• Add generic analytics (django-analytical)

Changes:

https://github.com/Organice/django-organice/compare/v0.1…v0.2

Dependencies:

https://github.com/Organice/django-organice/blob/v0.2/docs/requirements.txt

0.1

• Initial release

• Based on Django 1.5.5, django CMS 2.4.3, Zinnia blog 0.13, Emencia newsletter 0.3.dev

• A more natural i18n mechanism than vanilla Django, no language prefix for default language

• Setup script with project generation, deployment settings, custom templates, Bootstrap 3

Dependencies:

https://github.com/Organice/django-organice/blob/v0.1/docs/requirements.txt