Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework.
By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.
While our initial development was focused around a demo social networking site, Pinax is suitable for a wide variety of websites. We are working on number of editions tailored to intranets, event management, learning management, software project management and more.
At this stage, there is:
and much more coming...
You can learn more about the history and motivation for Pinax in an interview with James Tauber on This Week in Django as well as his talk on Pinax at DjangoCon 2008 and talk on Pinax at PyCon 2009.