Hi eknuth. There's a brief mention of this elsewhere in the thread: "[Wagtail does support multiple languages] but it doesn't (yet) do anything clever like link different language versions of the same article. On a related subject, we're starting on i18n next week, with the first localisation - Greek - following shortly."
I'm actually doing this now. We're using jekyll for a tablet magazine site with several non technical staff using github and prose to manage the content.
It's actually going fairly well. There have definitely been some issues, but it's been great.
I've used mezzanine before but ultimately removed it from the code. If you're interested in adding a company blog to your app's domain, it just touches too many things and makes a mess. I use zinnia now http://django-blog-zinnia.com/.
I think mezzanine is a great alternative to wordpress. It makes a great blog if that's all you want. If what you need is a CMS to handle the content side of your app, you may want something a little more flexible/light weight.
RE: Part I get it... It's kind of just like Wordpress, great for blogs and everything else is difficult IMO. The only difference being you can still use Django if you need to. I guess... I don't know enough, just enough to be dangerous. :-)
I'm curious about why people jump on angular without even checking out knockoutjs. Knockout provides similar functionality with slightly less code. The demo/doc site is incredible.
I think it is also interesting that since backbone all the hot front end frameworks are of the model binding variety. Honestly when you do stuff like angular or knockout backbone just feels clunky.
I know that there are model binding plugins for backbone, but you still end up writing a bunch more code.
The things that sold me on AngularJS over Knockout were built-in routing and REST (via $resource). I feel like these things should be included in Knockout and by using third-party solutions or attempting to roll my own would have created more code/complexity than the AngularJS solution for my app.
Jekyll just generates static html, so you can host it anywhere.
Honestly, this is the best suggestion, here. You can build anything you want with jekyll and never have to worry about stupid mysql/php crap ever again.
Customizing it with less is really pretty straightforward.
You can also generate custom css from the website. Just click the customize tab in the topbar. You can bump up @baseFontSize. 16px works very well. You might also want to increase the @baseLineHeight a bit as well.
I may be biased, but I'd second the nominations for Portland, Oregon. A lot of interesting things are happening. Acquisitions and funding have been intense. Check out the list:
http://aaronparecki.com/Portland_Funding_and_Acquisitions
Any support for multiple languages, yet?