# Pelican, 9 months later


Back in October, I released
[pelican](http://docs.notmyidea.org/alexis/pelican), a little piece of
code I wrote to power this weblog. I had simple needs: I wanted to be
able to use my text editor of choice (vim), a vcs (mercurial) and
restructured text. I started to write a really simple blog engine in
something like a hundred python lines and released it on github.

And people started contributing. I wasn't at all expecting to see people
interested in such a little piece of code, but it turned out that they
were. I refactored the code to make it evolve a bit more by two times
and eventually, in 9 months, got 49 forks, 139 issues and 73 pull
requests.

**Which is clearly awesome.**

I pulled features such as translations, tag clouds, integration with
different services such as twitter or piwik, import from dotclear and
rss, fixed a number of mistakes and improved a lot the codebase. This
was a proof that there is a bunch of people that are willing to make
better softwares just for the sake of fun.

Thank you, guys, you're why I like open source so much.
