A Bazaar-Style Open Source Project: We are all familiar with the basic concept of a web-based CMS. Implementations in various forms and permutations in Java Websphere, Zend PHP, Joomla, Drupal, Python Zope and Python Plone already exist and are very well known.

So, why are we reinventing the wheel? In this open source project, we have implemented a powerful "Diff":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff algorithm in a Django-based CMS, described by Eugene Myers in one of his papers http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.4.6927 Myer's Diff algorithm is generally considered to be the best general-purpose diff. A layer of pre-diff speedups and post-diff cleanups surround the diff algorithm, improving both performance and output quality.

Such an implementation has the potential to deliver unrivalled enterprise-class application performance in terms of archiving Content in Database Systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL and even Oracle. We aim to chart out a project roadmap, use this CMS Django App in our internal and client implementations; and eventually provide open performance benchmarks against other CMSes.

This is a project which is intended to be grown from ground-up, 100% Open Source and Bazaar Style.