That list also includes all kind of stuff that's not actually static sure generators, like BitBalloon (hosting service) or Kirby (flat file CMS), etc...
They're fairly clearly labelled and categorized. Might be easier to build a frontend to their open Public Domain data rather than asking everyone to re-submit their projects: https://github.com/bevry/staticsitegenerators-list/
As far as I can see there's no categorization. The only way to find the list of actual static site generators is to read through the description of each of them. And since some don't have descriptions, the only way to know for sure is to visit their website and try to read through the docs to figure out.
That said it's a great list of tools around static web-tech - just not super useful if you're strictly looking for static site generators.
There are License and Language keys for most entries. Sounds like you want to filter out the Commercial and Web ones. If you find any that aren't categorized properly, I'm sure they'd appreciate a PR.
I'm also writing a Guile program specifically for the static site generator workflow called Haunt: http://haunt.dthompson.us/
I'm currently adding support for the Skribe syntax that Skribilo uses and it will be available in the next release, after I convert my existing blog to Haunt from Pelican and work out any transition pains.
OK, Haunt looks pretty nice. According to my TODO, i'm still supposed to convert my website from Hakyll to something with parens sometime in the future, so i'll definitely keep Haunt in mind :).
I'll typically make a fairly simple template by 'hand' in my editor, then port it to Jekyll or WordPress or something else like that.
As far as writing + deploying a simple HTML site, it's been 2-3 months since I've done that, if only because no one I contract with or work with wants to spend the time or money on me hand-writing and pushing a site-- templating it and then generating the rest of the site is at least a little quicker than that, and still doesn't come with the burden of using a backend language.
At this point what we really need is a list of static site generator lists.