1 Django was originally created in late 2003 at World Online, the Web division
2 of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas.
4 The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):
6 Adrian Holovaty <http://www.holovaty.com/>, who originally created Django with
7 Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob.
9 Simon Willison <http://simon.incutio.com/>, who originally created Django with
10 Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently
11 helps from the sidelines.
13 Jacob Kaplan-Moss <http://www.jacobian.org/>, who joined the team shortly
14 before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian.
16 Wilson Miner <http://www.wilsonminer.com/>, who designed Django's admin
17 interface, pretty error pages, official Web site (djangoproject.com) and has
18 made many other contributions. He makes us look good.
20 Malcolm Tredinnick <http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/>, who has made
21 significant contributions to all levels of the framework, from its database
22 layer to template system and documentation.
24 Georg "Hugo" Bauer <http://hugo.muensterland.org/>, who added
25 internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton
26 of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
28 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>, who has contributed many excellent
29 improvements, including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and
32 Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy@iinet.net.au>, who has contributed many excellent
33 improvements, including refactoring of the Django ORM code and unit tests.
35 Robert Wittams <http://robert.wittams.com/>, who majorly refactored the Django
36 admin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of excellent
37 tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
40 And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS --
41 people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped
42 answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
45 alang@bright-green.com
46 Marty Alchin <gulopine@gamemusic.org>
47 atlithorn <atlithorn@gmail.com>
48 Daniel Alves Barbosa de Oliveira Vaz <danielvaz@gmail.com>
49 AgarFu <heaven@croasanaso.sytes.net>
50 Dagur Páll Ammendrup <dagurp@gmail.com>
51 Collin Anderson <cmawebsite@gmail.com>
54 Fabrice Aneche <akh@nobugware.com>
56 Florian Apolloner <florian@apolloner.eu>
57 arien <regexbot@gmail.com>
58 David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
59 Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson <jokullsolberg@gmail.com>
60 Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
62 David Avsajanishvili <avsd05@gmail.com>
63 Mike Axiak <axiak@mit.edu>
64 Niran Babalola <niran@niran.org>
65 Morten Bagai <m@bagai.com>
66 Mikaël Barbero <mikael.barbero nospam at nospam free.fr>
68 Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>
70 Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
71 Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>
72 Chris Bennett <chrisrbennett@yahoo.com>
75 Arvis Bickovskis <viestards.lists@gmail.com>
76 Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
78 David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
79 Matt Boersma <ogghead@gmail.com>
81 Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
84 Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>
85 Keith Bussell <kbussell@gmail.com>
86 Chris Cahoon <chris.cahoon@gmail.com>
87 Juan Manuel Caicedo <juan.manuel.caicedo@gmail.com>
88 Trevor Caira <trevor@caira.com>
89 Ricardo Javier Cárdenes Medina <ricardo.cardenes@gmail.com>
90 Graham Carlyle <graham.carlyle@maplecroft.net>
91 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
94 Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>
95 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
97 Sengtha Chay <sengtha@e-khmer.com>
98 ivan.chelubeev@gmail.com
99 Bryan Chow <bryan at verdjn dot com>
100 Antonis Christofides <anthony@itia.ntua.gr>
101 Michal Chruszcz <troll@pld-linux.org>
102 Can Burak Çilingir <canburak@cs.bilgi.edu.tr>
103 Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
104 Russell Cloran <russell@rucus.net>
106 crankycoder@gmail.com
107 Paul Collier <paul@paul-collier.com>
108 Pete Crosier <pete.crosier@gmail.com>
109 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
110 Leah Culver <leah@pownce.com>
111 flavio.curella@gmail.com
112 Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
113 John D'Agostino <john.dagostino@gmail.com>
114 dackze+django@gmail.com
115 Mihai Damian <yang_damian@yahoo.com>
116 David Danier <goliath.mailinglist@gmx.de>
117 Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>
118 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
119 dave@thebarproject.com
121 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
124 Max Derkachev <mderk@yandex.ru>
125 Rajesh Dhawan <rajesh.dhawan@gmail.com>
126 Sander Dijkhuis <sander.dijkhuis@gmail.com>
127 Jordan Dimov <s3x3y1@gmail.com>
129 dready <wil@mojipage.com>
130 Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
131 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
132 Andrew Durdin <adurdin@gmail.com>
134 Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
136 Nick Efford <nick@efford.org>
139 Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>
140 A. Murat Eren <meren@pardus.org.tr>
141 Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>
143 Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>
144 Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>
145 Szilveszter Farkas <szilveszter.farkas@gmail.com>
147 fdr <drfarina@gmail.com>
148 Dmitri Fedortchenko <zeraien@gmail.com>
149 Jonathan Feignberg <jdf@pobox.com>
150 Liang Feng <hutuworm@gmail.com>
151 Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com>
152 Stefane Fermgier <sf@fermigier.com>
153 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
154 J. Pablo Fernandez <pupeno@pupeno.com>
156 Matthew Flanagan <http://wadofstuff.blogspot.com>
157 Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>
158 Eric Florenzano <floguy@gmail.com>
159 Vincent Foley <vfoleybourgon@yahoo.ca>
160 Rudolph Froger <rfroger@estrate.nl>
161 Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>
163 Marc Garcia <marc.garcia@accopensys.com>
164 Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
165 Andy Gayton <andy-django@thecablelounge.com>
167 Dimitris Glezos <dimitris@glezos.com>
169 martin.glueck@gmail.com
170 Artyom Gnilov <boobsd@gmail.com>
171 Ben Godfrey <http://aftnn.org>
172 GomoX <gomo@datafull.com>
173 Guilherme Mesquita Gondim <semente@taurinus.org>
174 Mario Gonzalez <gonzalemario@gmail.com>
175 pradeep.gowda@gmail.com
176 Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
178 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
179 Thomas Güttler <hv@tbz-pariv.de>
180 Horst Gutmann <zerok@zerokspot.com>
183 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
186 Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>
187 Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>
188 Mikko Hellsing <mikko@sorl.net>
189 hipertracker@gmail.com
190 Deryck Hodge <http://www.devurandom.org/>
191 Brett Hoerner <bretthoerner@bretthoerner.com>
192 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
193 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
194 Sung-Jin Hong <serialx.net@gmail.com>
195 Richard House <Richard.House@i-logue.com>
196 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
197 Rob Hudson <http://rob.cogit8.org/>
198 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
200 Ibon <ibonso@gmail.com>
202 Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
206 Zak Johnson <zakj@nox.cx>
207 Nis Jørgensen <nis@superlativ.dk>
208 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
210 junzhang.jn@gmail.com
211 Antti Kaihola <http://akaihola.blogspot.com/>
212 Bahadır Kandemir <bahadir@pardus.org.tr>
213 Karderio <karderio@gmail.com>
214 Nagy Károly <charlie@rendszergazda.com>
215 Erik Karulf <erik@karulf.com>
216 Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>
217 Ian G. Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
218 Thomas Kerpe <thomas@kerpe.net>
219 Ben Khoo <khoobks@westnet.com.au>
220 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
221 kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
222 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
223 Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
224 Cameron Knight (ckknight)
225 Nena Kojadin <nena@kiberpipa.org>
226 Igor Kolar <ike@email.si>
228 Martin Kosír <martin@martinkosir.net>
229 Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
230 Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
231 krzysiek.pawlik@silvermedia.pl
234 knox <christobzr@gmail.com>
237 Panos Laganakos <panos.laganakos@gmail.com>
238 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
239 Nick Lane <nick.lane.au@gmail.com>
240 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
241 Paul Lanier <planier@google.com>
242 Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>
244 Rune Rønde Laursen <runerl@skjoldhoej.dk>
245 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
247 Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>
248 Jannis Leidel <jl@websushi.org>
249 Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
251 Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
253 Philip Lindborg <philip.lindborg@gmail.com>
254 Simon Litchfield <simon@quo.com.au>
255 Daniel Lindsley <polarcowz@gmail.com>
256 Trey Long <trey@ktrl.com>
257 msaelices <msaelices@gmail.com>
258 Matt McClanahan <http://mmcc.cx/>
259 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
260 Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@gmail.com>
261 masonsimon+django@gmail.com
263 Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@gmail.com>
264 Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>
265 Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>
266 Marijn Vriens <marijn@metronomo.cl>
268 Orestis Markou <orestis@orestis.gr>
269 Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>
271 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
274 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
276 Slawek Mikula <slawek dot mikula at gmail dot com>
279 Andreas Mock <andreas.mock@web.de>
280 Reza Mohammadi <reza@zeerak.ir>
281 Aljosa Mohorovic <aljosa.mohorovic@gmail.com>
282 Ramiro Morales <rm0@gmx.net>
283 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
284 mrmachine <real.human@mrmachine.net>
285 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
288 Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>
290 Doug Napoleone <doug@dougma.com>
291 Gopal Narayanan <gopastro@gmail.com>
292 Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>
293 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
294 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
295 Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
296 Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan@mac.com>
297 oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
298 oggy <ognjen.maric@gmail.com>
299 Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
300 Carlos Eduardo de Paula <carlosedp@gmail.com>
301 pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>
302 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>
303 permonik@mesias.brnonet.cz
304 petr.marhoun@gmail.com
306 pgross@thoughtworks.com
307 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
308 Julien Phalip <http://www.julienphalip.com>
310 phil.h.smith@gmail.com
312 Michael Placentra II <someone@michaelplacentra2.net>
313 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
315 Mihai Preda <mihai_preda@yahoo.com>
316 Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
318 Matthias Pronk <django@masida.nl>
319 Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki.pulliainen@gmail.com>
320 Johann Queuniet <johann.queuniet@adh.naellia.eu>
322 Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
323 Laurent Rahuel <laurent.rahuel@gmail.com>
324 Amit Ramon <amit.ramon@gmail.com>
325 Philippe Raoult <philippe.raoult@n2nsoft.com>
326 Massimiliano Ravelli <massimiliano.ravelli@gmail.com>
327 Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
329 David Reynolds <david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk>
331 ricardojbarrios@gmail.com
333 Henrique Romano <onaiort@gmail.com>
335 Daniel Roseman <http://roseman.org.uk/>
336 Brian Rosner <brosner@gmail.com>
337 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
339 Manuel Saelices <msaelices@yaco.es>
340 Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
341 Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
344 Ilya Semenov <semenov@inetss.com>
346 John Shaffer <jshaffer2112@gmail.com>
347 Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
349 jason.sidabras@gmail.com
350 Brenton Simpson <http://theillustratedlife.com>
351 Jozko Skrablin <jozko.skrablin@gmail.com>
352 Ben Slavin <benjamin.slavin@gmail.com>
353 sloonz <simon.lipp@insa-lyon.fr>
354 SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>
358 Leo Soto <leo.soto@gmail.com>
359 Wiliam Alves de Souza <wiliamsouza83@gmail.com>
360 Don Spaulding <donspauldingii@gmail.com>
361 Bjørn Stabell <bjorn@exoweb.net>
362 Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
363 starrynight <cmorgh@gmail.com>
364 Vasiliy Stavenko <stavenko@gmail.com>
365 Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
366 Johan C. Stöver <johan@nilling.nl>
368 Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@google.com>
371 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
372 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
373 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
374 Ville Säävuori <http://www.unessa.net/>
375 Christian Tanzer <tanzer@swing.co.at>
376 Tyler Tarabula <tyler.tarabula@gmail.com>
377 Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>
378 Frank Tegtmeyer <fte@fte.to>
380 thebjorn <bp@datakortet.no>
381 Zach Thompson <zthompson47@gmail.com>
383 Deepak Thukral <deep.thukral@gmail.com>
387 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
388 torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
389 Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>
390 tstromberg@google.com
391 Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>
393 David Tulig <david.tulig@gmail.com>
394 Amit Upadhyay <http://www.amitu.com/blog/>
396 I.S. van Oostveen <v.oostveen@idca.nl>
397 viestards.lists@gmail.com
398 George Vilches <gav@thataddress.com>
399 Vlado <vlado@labath.org>
401 Chris Wagner <cw264701@ohio.edu>
402 wam-djangobug@wamber.net
403 Wang Chun <wangchun@exoweb.net>
404 Filip Wasilewski <filip.wasilewski@gmail.com>
405 Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>
406 Joel Watts <joel@joelwatts.com>
407 Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>
408 James Wheare <django@sparemint.com>
409 charly.wilhelm@gmail.com
410 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
411 Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@gmail.com>
412 Jakub Wilk <ubanus@users.sf.net>
413 Jakub Wiśniowski <restless.being@gmail.com>
414 Maciej Wiśniowski <pigletto@gmail.com>
416 Jason Yan <tailofthesun@gmail.com>
417 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
418 ymasuda@ethercube.com
419 Jarek Zgoda <jarek.zgoda@gmail.com>
422 A big THANK YOU goes to:
424 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
426 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
427 his sage sysadmin advice.
429 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
431 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
433 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.