Armstrong (content management system)
Armstrong is an open source news publishing platform jointly developed by nonprofit online news organizations The Texas Tribune and The Bay Citizen with the assistance of a grant by the Knight Foundation. The core of the content management system's functionality was used by The Texas Tribune and The Bay Citizen since 2009, and it was released to the public in 2011.[1] The Nieman Journalism Lab has described the project as "A Wordpress for news orgs."[2] The grant for Armstrong's development expired in 2012,[3] and by 2017 the software's homepage had not been updated since 2014.[3] As of 2022[update] the website was parked[4] and the most recent commits to its GitHub repository had been made in 2013.[5]
Armstrong was designed primarily to simplify the publishing process for other nonprofit news organizations by giving them the option of a CMS specifically created for news. Focuses of the system include media management, search engine optimization, integration with social media, and development of revenue streams.[4] Higinio Maycotte, CTO of The Texas Tribune, said that "literally hundreds of media companies around the globe have expressed interest in moving to Armstrong."[1]
The project to release Armstrong as an open source CMS was fueled by a $975,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, which is devoted to media innovation, to The Texas Tribune and The Bay Citizen. The grant was announced at SXSW Interactive in March 2011.[1]
Armstrong is written in Django, an open source framework for web applications in the Python programming language.
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- ^ a b c "The Bay Citizen and The Texas Tribune Launch Open-Source Publishing Platform (Project Armstrong) Funded By Knight Foundation Grant". Market Watch. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ^ Beckett, Lois. "A WordPress for news orgs: Knight gives Bay Citizen, Texas Tribune $975,000 for open-source CMS". Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ^ a b "Armstrong – Open Source News Platform". Archived from the original on 7 May 2017.
- ^ a b "Armstrong CMS – Open Source CMS for News". Armstrong. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
- ^ "Armstrong". GitHub.