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:
44 alang@bright-green.com
45 Marty Alchin <gulopine@gamemusic.org>
46 atlithorn <atlithorn@gmail.com>
47 Daniel Alves Barbosa de Oliveira Vaz <danielvaz@gmail.com>
48 AgarFu <heaven@croasanaso.sytes.net>
49 Dagur Páll Ammendrup <dagurp@gmail.com>
50 Collin Anderson <cmawebsite@gmail.com>
53 Fabrice Aneche <akh@nobugware.com>
56 arien <regexbot@gmail.com>
57 David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
58 Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson <jokullsolberg@gmail.com>
59 Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
60 David Avsajanishvili <avsd05@gmail.com>
62 Niran Babalola <niran@niran.org>
63 Morten Bagai <m@bagai.com>
64 Mikaël Barbero <mikael.barbero nospam at nospam free.fr>
66 Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>
67 Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
68 Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>
69 Chris Bennett <chrisrbennett@yahoo.com>
71 Ben <afternoon@uk2.net>
72 Arvis Bickovskis <viestards.lists@gmail.com>
73 Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
75 Matt Boersma <ogghead@gmail.com>
77 Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
80 Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>
81 Can Burak Çilingir <canburak@cs.bilgi.edu.tr>
82 Trevor Caira <trevor@caira.com>
83 Ricardo Javier Cárdenes Medina <ricardo.cardenes@gmail.com>
84 Graham Carlyle <graham.carlyle@maplecroft.net>
85 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
88 Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>
89 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
91 Sengtha Chay <sengtha@e-khmer.com>
92 ivan.chelubeev@gmail.com
93 Bryan Chow <bryan at verdjn dot com>
94 Michal Chruszcz <troll@pld-linux.org>
95 Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
96 Russell Cloran <russell@rucus.net>
99 Paul Collier <paul@paul-collier.com>
100 Pete Crosier <pete.crosier@gmail.com>
101 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
102 Leah Culver <leah@pownce.com>
103 flavio.curella@gmail.com
104 Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
105 John D'Agostino <john.dagostino@gmail.com>
106 dackze+django@gmail.com
107 David Danier <goliath.mailinglist@gmx.de>
108 Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>
109 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
110 dave@thebarproject.com
112 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
115 Max Derkachev <mderk@yandex.ru>
116 Rajesh Dhawan <rajesh.dhawan@gmail.com>
117 Sander Dijkhuis <sander.dijkhuis@gmail.com>
118 Jordan Dimov <s3x3y1@gmail.com>
120 dready <wil@mojipage.com>
121 Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
122 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
123 Andrew Durdin <adurdin@gmail.com>
125 Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
127 Nick Efford <nick@efford.org>
130 Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>
131 A. Murat Eren <meren@pardus.org.tr>
132 Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>
134 Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>
135 Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>
136 Szilveszter Farkas <szilveszter.farkas@gmail.com>
138 Dmitri Fedortchenko <zeraien@gmail.com>
139 Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com>
140 Stefane Fermgier <sf@fermigier.com>
141 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
142 Matthew Flanagan <http://wadofstuff.blogspot.com>
143 Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>
144 Vincent Foley <vfoleybourgon@yahoo.ca>
145 Rudolph Froger <rfroger@estrate.nl>
146 Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>
148 Marc Garcia <marc.garcia@accopensys.com>
149 Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
150 Andy Gayton <andy-django@thecablelounge.com>
152 Dimitris Glezos <dimitris@glezos.com>
154 martin.glueck@gmail.com
155 Artyom Gnilov <boobsd@gmail.com>
156 GomoX <gomo@datafull.com>
157 Mario Gonzalez <gonzalemario@gmail.com>
158 pradeep.gowda@gmail.com
159 Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
161 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
162 Thomas Güttler <hv@tbz-pariv.de>
164 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
167 Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>
168 Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>
169 hipertracker@gmail.com
170 Deryck Hodge <http://www.devurandom.org/>
171 Brett Hoerner <bretthoerner@bretthoerner.com>
172 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
173 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
174 Sung-Jin Hong <serialx.net@gmail.com>
175 Richard House <Richard.House@i-logue.com>
176 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
177 Rob Hudson <http://rob.cogit8.org/>
178 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
180 Ibon <ibonso@gmail.com>
182 Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
185 Zak Johnson <zakj@nox.cx>
186 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
188 junzhang.jn@gmail.com
189 Antti Kaihola <http://akaihola.blogspot.com/>
190 Bahadır Kandemir <bahadir@pardus.org.tr>
191 Karderio <karderio@gmail.com>
192 Nagy Károly <charlie@rendszergazda.com>
193 Erik Karulf <erik@karulf.com>
194 Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>
195 Ian G. Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
196 Thomas Kerpe <thomas@kerpe.net>
197 Ben Khoo <khoobks@westnet.com.au>
198 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
199 kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
200 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
201 Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
202 Cameron Knight (ckknight)
203 Nena Kojadin <nena@kiberpipa.org>
204 Igor Kolar <ike@email.si>
206 Martin Kosír <martin@martinkosir.net>
207 Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
208 Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
209 krzysiek.pawlik@silvermedia.pl
212 knox <christobzr@gmail.com>
215 Panos Laganakos <panos.laganakos@gmail.com>
216 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
217 Nick Lane <nick.lane.au@gmail.com>
218 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
219 Paul Lanier <planier@google.com>
220 Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>
221 Rune Rønde Laursen <runerl@skjoldhoej.dk>
222 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
223 Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>
224 Jannis Leidel <jl@websushi.org>
225 Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
227 Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
229 Philip Lindborg <philip.lindborg@gmail.com>
230 Trey Long <trey@ktrl.com>
231 msaelices <msaelices@gmail.com>
232 Matt McClanahan <http://mmcc.cx/>
233 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
234 masonsimon+django@gmail.com
236 Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@gmail.com>
237 Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>
238 Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>
239 Marijn Vriens <marijn@metronomo.cl>
241 Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>
243 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
245 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
247 Mikko Hellsing <mikko@sorl.net>
248 Daniel Lindsley <polarcowz@gmail.com>
249 Orestis Markou <orestis@orestis.gr>
250 Slawek Mikula <slawek dot mikula at gmail dot com>
253 Andreas Mock <andreas.mock@web.de>
254 Reza Mohammadi <reza@zeerak.ir>
255 Aljosa Mohorovic <aljosa.mohorovic@gmail.com>
256 Ramiro Morales <rm0@gmx.net>
257 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
258 mrmachine <real.human@mrmachine.net>
259 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
260 Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>
262 Doug Napoleone <doug@dougma.com>
263 Gopal Narayanan <gopastro@gmail.com>
264 Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>
265 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
266 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
267 Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
268 Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan@mac.com>
269 oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
270 Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
271 Carlos Eduardo de Paula <carlosedp@gmail.com>
272 pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>
273 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>
274 permonik@mesias.brnonet.cz
275 petr.marhoun@gmail.com
277 pgross@thoughtworks.com
278 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
280 phil.h.smith@gmail.com
282 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
284 Mihai Preda <mihai_preda@yahoo.com>
285 Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
287 Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki.pulliainen@gmail.com>
288 Johann Queuniet <johann.queuniet@adh.naellia.eu>
290 Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
291 Laurent Rahuel <laurent.rahuel@gmail.com>
292 Amit Ramon <amit.ramon@gmail.com>
293 Philippe Raoult <philippe.raoult@n2nsoft.com>
294 Massimiliano Ravelli <massimiliano.ravelli@gmail.com>
295 Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
297 David Reynolds <david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk>
299 ricardojbarrios@gmail.com
301 Henrique Romano <onaiort@gmail.com>
303 Brian Rosner <brosner@gmail.com>
304 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
306 Manuel Saelices <msaelices@yaco.es>
307 Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
308 Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
311 Ilya Semenov <semenov@inetss.com>
313 John Shaffer <jshaffer2112@gmail.com>
314 Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
316 jason.sidabras@gmail.com
317 Jozko Skrablin <jozko.skrablin@gmail.com>
318 Ben Slavin <benjamin.slavin@gmail.com>
319 SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>
323 Leo Soto <leo.soto@gmail.com>
324 Wiliam Alves de Souza <wiliamsouza83@gmail.com>
325 Don Spaulding <donspauldingii@gmail.com>
326 Bjørn Stabell <bjorn@exoweb.net>
327 Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
328 starrynight <cmorgh@gmail.com>
329 Vasiliy Stavenko <stavenko@gmail.com>
330 Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
331 Johan C. Stöver <johan@nilling.nl>
333 Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@google.com>
336 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
337 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
338 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
339 Ville Säävuori <http://www.unessa.net/>
340 Tyler Tarabula <tyler.tarabula@gmail.com>
341 Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>
342 Frank Tegtmeyer <fte@fte.to>
344 thebjorn <bp@datakortet.no>
345 Zach Thompson <zthompson47@gmail.com>
347 Deepak Thukral <deep.thukral@gmail.com>
351 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
352 torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
353 Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>
354 tstromberg@google.com
355 Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>
357 David Tulig <david.tulig@gmail.com>
360 I.S. van Oostveen <v.oostveen@idca.nl>
361 viestards.lists@gmail.com
362 George Vilches <gav@thataddress.com>
363 Vlado <vlado@labath.org>
365 wam-djangobug@wamber.net
366 Wang Chun <wangchun@exoweb.net>
367 Filip Wasilewski <filip.wasilewski@gmail.com>
368 Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>
369 Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>
370 James Wheare <django@sparemint.com>
371 charly.wilhelm@gmail.com
372 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
373 Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@gmail.com>
374 Jakub Wiśniowski <restless.being@gmail.com>
375 Maciej Wiśniowski <pigletto@gmail.com>
377 Jason Yan <tailofthesun@gmail.com>
378 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
379 ymasuda@ethercube.com
380 Jarek Zgoda <jarek.zgoda@gmail.com>
383 A big THANK YOU goes to:
385 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
387 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
388 his sage sysadmin advice.
390 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
392 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
394 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.