Discussion with Corey Oordt talking OpenSource Washington Times

A conversation with Corey Oordt discussing the new OpenSource Washington Times project and their forthcoming collection of reusable apps, along with greater goals for becoming a platform for Django newspaper/media applications.

Oordt is the Deputy Internet Director for the Washington Times. His small team of Django developers soon plans to make a greater public position in the open source community with their latest opensource.washingtontimes.com project website and their soon to be releases project repository including django-suppertagging (Open Calais integration), django-massmedia, solango, a Django powered trac-like management application, django-clickpass, along with further aspirations for hosting Django sprints, projects, and ideally growing into a platform for hosting Django powered news applications.

We talked about all the projects in further detail throughout the call. As of 2/11/09 only the django-clickpass and solango are currently available. It was a pleasure talking further with Corey about the great work his development team is doing. It’s very interesting following them as the lead up to releasing their project to the community. Definitely a creative development team to keep an eye on. Thanks again Corey!

• Running Time: 30 minutes
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