Polimark -- Political Markdown -- is a static site generator designed to build informational, political websites.
Growing out of the Indiana 50501 movement, Polimark is interesting in that while it is a static site generator, it:
- Uses github to manage all content
- Allows content to be edited thru github
- Is oriented around deployment to low end (think DreamHost) cheap hosting
- Is designed for informational content rather than rich html content
- Is secure -- by preventing HTML content and JavaScript, the tracking that is terrifying in our current authoritarian administration
- Is designed to generate PHP code as needed for things like lists of documents (example - given a folder of markdown files and no index page, an index page listing all content will be generated using PHP)