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+`CubicWeb` Foundations
+======================
+
+A little history...
+-------------------
+
+`CubicWeb` is a web application framework developped by Logilab_ since 2001.
+
+Entirely written in Python, `CubicWeb` publishes data from all sorts
+of sources such as SQL database, LDAP directory and versioning system such
+as subversion.
+
+`CubicWeb` user interface was designed to let the final user a huge flexibility
+on how to select and how to display content. It allows to browse the knowledge
+database and to display the results with the best rendering according to
+the context.
+This interface flexibility gives back the user the control of the 
+rendering parameters that are usually reserved for developpers.
+
+
+We can list a couple of web applications developped with `CubicWeb`, an online
+public phone directory (see http://www.118000.fr/), a system for managing 
+digital studies and simulations for a research lab, a tool for shared children
+babysitting (see http://garde-partagee.atoukontact.fr/), a tool to manage
+software developpment (see http://www.logilab.org), an application for
+managing museums collections (see 
+http://collections.musees-haute-normandie.fr/collections/), etc.
+
+In 2008, `CubicWeb` was ported for a new type of source : the datastore 
+from `GoogleAppEngine`_.
+