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 Daniel Alves Barbosa de Oliveira Vaz <danielvaz@gmail.com>
47 AgarFu <heaven@croasanaso.sytes.net>
50 Fabrice Aneche <akh@nobugware.com>
52 David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
54 Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
57 Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>
58 Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
59 Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>
60 Chris Bennett <chrisrbennett@yahoo.com>
62 Ben <afternoon@uk2.net>
63 Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
65 Matt Boersma <ogghead@gmail.com>
67 Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
69 Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>
70 Trevor Caira <trevor@caira.com>
71 Ricardo Javier Cárdenes Medina <ricardo.cardenes@gmail.com>
72 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
75 Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>
76 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
78 ivan.chelubeev@gmail.com
79 Bryan Chow <bryan at verdjn dot com>
80 Michal Chruszcz <troll@pld-linux.org>
81 Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
84 Pete Crosier <pete.crosier@gmail.com>
85 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
86 flavio.curella@gmail.com
87 Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
88 dackze+django@gmail.com
89 David Danier <goliath.mailinglist@gmx.de>
90 Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>
91 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
92 dave@thebarproject.com
93 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
96 Max Derkachev <mderk@yandex.ru>
97 Jordan Dimov <s3x3y1@gmail.com>
99 Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
100 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
101 Andrew Durdin <adurdin@gmail.com>
103 Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
107 Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>
108 A. Murat Eren <meren@pardus.org.tr>
109 Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>
110 Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>
111 Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>
113 Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com>
114 Stefane Fermgier <sf@fermigier.com>
115 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
116 Matthew Flanagan <http://wadofstuff.blogspot.com>
117 Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>
118 Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>
120 Marc Garcia <marc.garcia@accopensys.com>
123 martin.glueck@gmail.com
124 GomoX <gomo@datafull.com>
125 Mario Gonzalez <gonzalemario@gmail.com>
126 pradeep.gowda@gmail.com
127 Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
129 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
130 Thomas Güttler <hv@tbz-pariv.de>
132 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
135 Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>
136 Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>
137 hipertracker@gmail.com
138 Brett Hoerner <bretthoerner@bretthoerner.com>
139 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
140 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
141 Sung-Jin Hong <serialx.net@gmail.com>
142 Richard House <Richard.House@i-logue.com>
143 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
144 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
147 Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
150 Zak Johnson <zakj@nox.cx>
151 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
153 junzhang.jn@gmail.com
154 Antti Kaihola <http://akaihola.blogspot.com/>
155 Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>
156 Ian G. Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
157 Ben Khoo <khoobks@westnet.com.au>
158 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
159 kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
160 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
161 Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
162 Cameron Knight (ckknight)
163 Nena Kojadin <nena@kiberpipa.org>
164 Igor Kolar <ike@email.si>
166 Martin Kosír <martin@martinkosir.net>
167 Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
168 Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
169 krzysiek.pawlik@silvermedia.pl
173 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
174 Nick Lane <nick.lane.au@gmail.com>
175 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
176 Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>
177 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
178 Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>
179 Jannis Leidel <jl@websushi.org>
180 Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
182 Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
184 Philip Lindborg <philip.lindborg@gmail.com>
185 Matt McClanahan <http://mmcc.cx/>
186 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
187 masonsimon+django@gmail.com
189 Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>
190 Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>
191 Marijn Vriens <marijn@metronomo.cl>
193 Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>
195 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
197 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
201 Andreas Mock <andreas.mock@web.de>
202 Reza Mohammadi <reza@zeerak.ir>
203 Aljosa Mohorovic <aljosa.mohorovic@gmail.com>
204 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
205 mrmachine <real.human@mrmachine.net>
206 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
207 Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>
209 Gopal Narayanan <gopastro@gmail.com>
210 Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>
211 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
212 Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
213 oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
214 Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
215 pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>
216 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>
217 petr.marhoun@gmail.com
218 pgross@thoughtworks.com
219 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
221 phil.h.smith@gmail.com
223 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
225 Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
227 Johann Queuniet <johann.queuniet@adh.naellia.eu>
229 Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
230 Ramiro Morales <rm0@gmx.net>
231 Massimiliano Ravelli <massimiliano.ravelli@gmail.com>
232 Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
235 Henrique Romano <onaiort@gmail.com>
237 Brian Rosner <brosner@gmail.com>
238 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
239 Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
240 Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
244 John Shaffer <jshaffer2112@gmail.com>
245 Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
246 Jozko Skrablin <jozko.skrablin@gmail.com>
247 SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>
250 Wiliam Alves de Souza <wiliamsouza83@gmail.com>
251 Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
252 Vasiliy Stavenko <stavenko@gmail.com>
253 Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
257 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
258 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
259 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
260 Ville Säävuori <http://www.unessa.net/>
261 Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>
262 Frank Tegtmeyer <fte@fte.to>
263 thebjorn <bp@datakortet.no>
264 Zach Thompson <zthompson47@gmail.com>
268 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
269 torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
270 Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>
271 tstromberg@google.com
272 Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>
276 viestards.lists@gmail.com
277 Vlado <vlado@labath.org>
279 wam-djangobug@wamber.net
280 wangchun <yaohua2000@gmail.com>
281 Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>
282 Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>
283 James Wheare <django@sparemint.com>
284 charly.wilhelm@gmail.com
285 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
286 Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@gmail.com>
288 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
289 ymasuda@ethercube.com
290 Jarek Zgoda <jarek.zgoda@gmail.com>
293 A big THANK YOU goes to:
295 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
297 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
298 his sage sysadmin advice.
300 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
302 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
304 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.