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I'm learning Phoenix so I've been on their website a bit lately. I believe Dockyard (the company with an ad on the bottom of Phoenix's site) is supporting the project.

DockYard indeed supports the project. I work there full-time, primarily on Phoenix development (I'm the creator). We wouldn't be able to do what we're doing without their support, so I welcome the trend of companies supporting the OSS projects they use.

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

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.

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

Got it. Thanks.