An open-source platform for essays, reflections, and community writing from Papuans.
Initiated by Papua Open Source — a tech community contributing to Papua through open source software.
This platform is an open space for Papuans to write and share their perspectives, experiences, and thoughts about Papua — in the form of essays, reflections, stories, and ideas about culture, society, politics, technology, identity, and everyday life.
- Write and publish essays with Markdown support
- User-created tags
- Author profiles with essay history and saved collections
- Reactions (love) and bookmarks per essay
- Comments and discussion
- Follow authors
- Notifications: new essays from followed authors and system recommendations
- Admin panel using django-unfold
- Python 3.13 + Django 6.x
- TailwindCSS v4 via django-tailwind
- Alpine.js for frontend interactivity
- django-unfold for the admin panel
- SQLite (development) / PostgreSQL (production)
- uv as package manager
See DEVELOPMENT.md for instructions on running the project locally.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.
AGPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.