[elliotec]

I was wondering why Django was the choice anyway... Am I out of the loop here? What about Rails, or anything else?

[pramodliv1]

MDN is written in Django: https://github.com/mozilla/kuma. The add-ons site also uses Django. http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2011/06/06/large-mozilla-s...

They have around 15 django libraries on GitHub as well https://github.com/mozilla?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=django

[elliotec]

Got it. Thanks.

[STRiDEX]

Django is a popular server-side Web development framework, used in many Mozilla websites. Their award will be used to make Django suitable to be a back end for Web apps which use WebSockets.

Probably because they use it at mozilla.