2011 in Review
31st December 2011
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General
- grew from 2 full-time employees to 5 (augmented with a great team of contractors)
- raised $500k in angel funding
- developed the backend for DjangoCon 2011, the full site for PyCon 2012 and open sourced the code as Symposion for other conferences to use
- released open-source Django apps such as agon, agon-ratings, anafero, dialogos, django-boxes, django-chunked-uploads, django-partitions, django-reminders, kairios, kaleo, mailout, marturion, metron, phileo and user_messages (all of which came out of either client work or our own sites)
- launched Gondor, now used for hosting hundreds of Django sites around the world
- partnered with Rackspace (initially in their Cloud Tools Program but most recently as a Silver Partner)
- developed a new site, KodeNode, currently in private beta
- launched Typewar Quests
- ran another Apple Predictions for the October 2011 Special Event
- launched a complete redesign of Quisition
- and one more thing we'll be announcing on January 3rd (now see Arnor)
Thanks again to our customers, clients, users and and all our supporters. I think 2012 is going to be a very exciting year at Eldarion!
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Eldarion builds great sites with Pinax and Django and helps you to do the same. We provide Pinax support & services, whether it's training, support or custom development you need.
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Gondor, our managed hosting solution, is catered specifically to commercial, multi-tiered Django and Pinax deployments. Whether you are a client wanting us to also take care of your hosting needs or have a site that you develop yourself and just desire push button deployments, Gondor is the solution for you.
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