What is "pinax"

Pinax \Pi"nax\, n.; pl. Pinaces. [L., fr. Gr. ? tablet.] A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet. [R.]
--Sir T. Browne.

n. 1 A tablet or register. 2 (context by extension English) A list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.

In the modern study of the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax (πίναξ) (plural pinakes - πίνακες) or a "board", denotes a votive tablet of painted wood, or terracotta, marble or bronze relief that served as a votive object deposited in a sanctuary or as a memorial affixed within a burial chamber. Such pinakes feature in the classical collections of most comprehensive museums.

Pinax may refer to:

• Pinax, a votive tablet that served as a votive object deposited in a sanctuary or burial chamber
• Pinakes, a 3rd-century-BCE work by Callimachus, the first library catalog system
• Pinax (software)

Pinax is an open source platform for rapidly developing websites, based on the Django web application framework, written in Python, and created by James Tauber.

It came out of an effort to further the use of reusable apps, to make a more accessible bundle of the many components already available for Django, and enabling rapid development of different kinds of web sites.

During its initial development, Pinax was used to create a social networking web site, later spun off as Cloud27.

Pinax is influential in the Django community, being used e.g. to build the DjangoCon and PyCon web sites. It could be seen as a competitor to large, open source, content management frameworks such as Drupal and Plone.

Pinax was initially announced with the name Tabula Rasa, but it was changed to Pinax a few days later.