Heard of Habari yet?

Posted on January 8, 2007 4 Comments

There’s a new name to watch for in the Blog/CMS software world: Habari.

Habari represents a fresh start to the idea of blogging. The system is fast, easy to use, and easy to modify. New users should have no problem using and enjoying Habari. Advanced users should have no problem tweaking Habari to do exactly what they need it to do.

Habari relies on PHP5 with PHP Data Objects (PDO), and your choice of SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite). Habari is strongly object oriented, and implements the full suite of the Atom Publishing Protocol. User-created plugins make Habari do nearly anything imaginable, and a robust theme system permits the use of several popular templating solutions.

So far, most of the developers are names you might recognize if you’ve been around WordPress for a while so there’s some experience with this sort of software and open source on board. Add to that some strong designers too.

Some more reading (the comments for many of these articles are just as interesting to read):

Changes Around Sillyness - Chris J Davis is one of the core devs and, I believe, has the first live install of Habari in the world.
Habari - As I understand, Khaled was very involved with the “Shuttle” project. Seems to have some strong designer chops.
Time to Habari - Michael Heilemann may be best known to many WP bloggers as the Kubrick and K2 guy.
with friends like this… - the wank mentions Habari. Comments from Skippy and Owen, both very well known for their WP involvement and clever plugins.
Habari - heck, even Matt mentions it. Read the comments, he even offered servers. And Skippy pops up again with some thoughts.

Interesting stuff. They have some lofty goals and the dev newsgroup covers a lot of ground… and I wish ‘em all the best. I look forward to playing with it soon.

Tags: blog, habari, open-source, WordPress