A new django site: shuteyes.org

It's not 100% ready for launch yet, but I wanted to write a little about something I've been working on lately. It's sort of a pet project of mine, shuteyes.org. Shut Eyes is an awareness site where members can submit content about awarenesses they may have related to local and global issues like social injustice, poverty, human trafficking, etc. The world is full of issues that many people don't see, especially those people living in rich countries like America and the United Kingdom. My hope is that through this site at least a small portion of those people can be affected by what they see and can move to change some small part of our ailing world.

The site is being developed with the awesome django web framework which I've worked with a lot over the last few years and continue to favor for all sites I am able to choose a framework for. I'm still a few weeks away from a launch but in that time I hope to post some blog entries about using django to develop a site like this.

If you think this site is going to be so badical you can't hardly stand it, please send me a message and I'll be sure to get you on the beta testers list.