Max Cutler

On Octo­ber 26, 2008, the first bits were com­mit­ted to the pri­vate Courant News project repos­i­tory. At the time, Rob, Paul and I were going to offer a hosted SaaS prod­uct for col­lege news orga­ni­za­tions, free­ing them from the grasps of Col­lege Pub­lisher and pro­vid­ing a sta­ble foun­da­tion for the future. In Feb­ru­ary 2009, we decided not to pur­sue the project as a busi­ness, but agreed to con­tinue devel­op­ment as an open-source project. On April 7, 2009, we opened our code to the pub­lic. After launch­ing the Yale Daily News on Courant in Sep­tem­ber 2009, we finally started to pick up steam in the past month. But after deep reflec­tion, we have decided to cease devel­op­ment of the project.

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This morn­ing on Twit­ter I announced that the Yale Daily News would not be migrat­ing to the Courant News plat­form this week­end as ini­tially planned. That imme­di­ately prompted some ques­tions about whether this meant that Courant was not going to be released until next fall when the YDN launches. The short answer: def­i­nitely not.  The long answer follows.

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