A follow-up has been written, titled "Onboarding a Django app within a 'Two Scoops'-style project" [1]. It explains the steps I took to migrate the Polls app from the 4-part Django tutorial [2] into our 'icratings' project. Please let me know if you have suggestions for next directions, or revisions.

[1] http://www.jmillville.com/onboarding/

[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/