Brubeck
Posted at 9:17 p.m., Sept. 24, 2011
The Maneater's home page, running the code that spawned the Brubeck project.
The Maneater's home page, running the code that spawned the Brubeck project.
A test article running on a checkout of the Brubeck code repository.
Brubeck supports a variety of multimedia content types, including podcasts.
In college, I spent a year as the online development editor at The Maneater, the University of Missouri's official student newspaper. Shortly before then, former online editor Mike Tigas had completely rewritten themaneater.com's content management system using the Django Web development framework (see here, here, here, here and here), and I decided to clean it up and make it easier to maintain.
A couple of years later, my friends (and fellow Maneater alumni) Esten Hurtle and Allan Vestal decided to turn that CMS into an open source project for independent study credit and make it more useful for other publications to use. Following in the proud tradition of naming Django projects after jazz musicians (e.g., Ellington, Satchmo, Grappelli), we decided to name it Brubeck after the pianist who was mentioned on the front page of the paper's first print edition.
The source code is up on Github if you're interested, and we're still working on it from time to time. (I gave a talk about it a few months after I moved to Virginia; the slides are over here.)