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+Pelican, 9 months later
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+:tags: pelican, python, open source, nice story
+:date: 25/07/2011
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+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.