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This site is now built using <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a> and hosted on <a href="https://pages.github.com/">GitHub Pages</a>. What does this mean for you?</p> <blockquote> <p>It means that going forward, it should be easier to tweak, update, and contribute to the site to better fit the needs of the OpenSpending community (e.g. you).</p> </blockquote> <p>Until recently, this site was hosted using <a href="https://wordpress.org/">Wordpress</a>. While Wordpress served its purpose well, it lacked the degree of flexibility we desired in a community-oriented site. Ultimately, we <a href="https://discuss.okfn.org/t/openspending-community-website-migration-2015/330">chose</a> to migrate to GitHub Pages because it gives us the best mix of:</p> <ul> <li>Ease of deployment and maintenance</li> <li>Ease of editing (can do one-click editing and see changes appear)</li> <li>Auditable / moderatable</li> <li>Configurability and themability</li> </ul> <p>In the process of migrating this site, we also reorganized some of its content, so please let us know if something is broken or not where it is supposed to be by creating an issue on the GitHub <a href="https://github.com/openspending/dotorg/issues/">repository</a> that hosts this site.</p> <p>Contributing is easy and, of course, highly encouraged! 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