I'd never heard of Pelican but I have to say their site is doing an really bad job at explaining what it does and how :)

I'd expect some screenshots and some points. All I learned from reading it is that it supports markdown but not really what kind of site it's for (e.g. blogs like wordpress etc).

I'm looking for a static generator to make a blog (static mainly for security and because I don't want to do anything complex anyway). But not sure if this will suffice.