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>
53 arien <regexbot@gmail.com>
54 David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
56 Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
59 Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>
60 Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
61 Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>
62 Chris Bennett <chrisrbennett@yahoo.com>
64 Ben <afternoon@uk2.net>
65 Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
67 Matt Boersma <ogghead@gmail.com>
69 Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
71 Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>
72 Trevor Caira <trevor@caira.com>
73 Ricardo Javier Cárdenes Medina <ricardo.cardenes@gmail.com>
74 Graham Carlyle <graham.carlyle@maplecroft.net>
75 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
78 Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>
79 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
81 Sengtha Chay <sengtha@e-khmer.com>
82 ivan.chelubeev@gmail.com
83 Bryan Chow <bryan at verdjn dot com>
84 Michal Chruszcz <troll@pld-linux.org>
85 Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
86 Russell Cloran <russell@rucus.net>
89 Paul Collier <paul@paul-collier.com>
90 Pete Crosier <pete.crosier@gmail.com>
91 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
92 Leah Culver <leah@pownce.com>
93 flavio.curella@gmail.com
94 Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
95 John D'Agostino <john.dagostino@gmail.com>
96 dackze+django@gmail.com
97 David Danier <goliath.mailinglist@gmx.de>
98 Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>
99 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
100 dave@thebarproject.com
101 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
104 Max Derkachev <mderk@yandex.ru>
105 Rajesh Dhawan <rajesh.dhawan@gmail.com>
106 Sander Dijkhuis <sander.dijkhuis@gmail.com>
107 Jordan Dimov <s3x3y1@gmail.com>
109 Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
110 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
111 Andrew Durdin <adurdin@gmail.com>
113 Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
115 Nick Efford <nick@efford.org>
118 Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>
119 A. Murat Eren <meren@pardus.org.tr>
120 Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>
122 Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>
123 Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>
124 Szilveszter Farkas <szilveszter.farkas@gmail.com>
126 Dmitri Fedortchenko <zeraien@gmail.com>
127 Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com>
128 Stefane Fermgier <sf@fermigier.com>
129 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
130 Matthew Flanagan <http://wadofstuff.blogspot.com>
131 Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>
132 Vincent Foley <vfoleybourgon@yahoo.ca>
133 Rudolph Froger <rfroger@estrate.nl>
134 Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>
136 Marc Garcia <marc.garcia@accopensys.com>
137 Andy Gayton <andy-django@thecablelounge.com>
139 Dimitris Glezos <dimitris@glezos.com>
141 martin.glueck@gmail.com
142 Artyom Gnilov <boobsd@gmail.com>
143 GomoX <gomo@datafull.com>
144 Mario Gonzalez <gonzalemario@gmail.com>
145 pradeep.gowda@gmail.com
146 Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
148 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
149 Thomas Güttler <hv@tbz-pariv.de>
151 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
154 Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>
155 Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>
156 hipertracker@gmail.com
157 Deryck Hodge <http://www.devurandom.org/>
158 Brett Hoerner <bretthoerner@bretthoerner.com>
159 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
160 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
161 Sung-Jin Hong <serialx.net@gmail.com>
162 Richard House <Richard.House@i-logue.com>
163 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
164 Rob Hudson <http://rob.cogit8.org/>
165 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
168 Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
171 Zak Johnson <zakj@nox.cx>
172 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
174 junzhang.jn@gmail.com
175 Antti Kaihola <http://akaihola.blogspot.com/>
176 Nagy Károly <charlie@rendszergazda.com>
177 Erik Karulf <erik@karulf.com>
178 Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>
179 Ian G. Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
180 Thomas Kerpe <thomas@kerpe.net>
181 Ben Khoo <khoobks@westnet.com.au>
182 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
183 kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
184 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
185 Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
186 Cameron Knight (ckknight)
187 Nena Kojadin <nena@kiberpipa.org>
188 Igor Kolar <ike@email.si>
190 Martin Kosír <martin@martinkosir.net>
191 Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
192 Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
193 krzysiek.pawlik@silvermedia.pl
196 knox <christobzr@gmail.com>
199 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
200 Nick Lane <nick.lane.au@gmail.com>
201 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
202 Paul Lanier <planier@google.com>
203 Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>
204 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
205 Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>
206 Jannis Leidel <jl@websushi.org>
207 Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
209 Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
211 Philip Lindborg <philip.lindborg@gmail.com>
212 Trey Long <trey@ktrl.com>
213 msaelices <msaelices@gmail.com>
214 Matt McClanahan <http://mmcc.cx/>
215 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
216 masonsimon+django@gmail.com
218 Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@gmail.com>
219 Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>
220 Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>
221 Marijn Vriens <marijn@metronomo.cl>
223 Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>
225 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
227 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
230 Slawek Mikula <slawek dot mikula at gmail dot com>
233 Andreas Mock <andreas.mock@web.de>
234 Reza Mohammadi <reza@zeerak.ir>
235 Aljosa Mohorovic <aljosa.mohorovic@gmail.com>
236 Ramiro Morales <rm0@gmx.net>
237 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
238 mrmachine <real.human@mrmachine.net>
239 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
240 Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>
242 Gopal Narayanan <gopastro@gmail.com>
243 Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>
244 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
245 Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
246 Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan@mac.com>
247 oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
248 Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
249 pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>
250 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>
251 permonik@mesias.brnonet.cz
252 petr.marhoun@gmail.com
253 pgross@thoughtworks.com
254 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
256 phil.h.smith@gmail.com
258 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
260 Mihai Preda <mihai_preda@yahoo.com>
261 Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
263 Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki.pulliainen@gmail.com>
264 Johann Queuniet <johann.queuniet@adh.naellia.eu>
266 Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
267 Amit Ramon <amit.ramon@gmail.com>
268 Philippe Raoult <philippe.raoult@n2nsoft.com>
269 Massimiliano Ravelli <massimiliano.ravelli@gmail.com>
270 Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
272 David Reynolds <david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk>
274 ricardojbarrios@gmail.com
276 Henrique Romano <onaiort@gmail.com>
278 Brian Rosner <brosner@gmail.com>
279 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
281 Manuel Saelices <msaelices@yaco.es>
282 Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
283 Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
286 Ilya Semenov <semenov@inetss.com>
288 John Shaffer <jshaffer2112@gmail.com>
289 Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
290 jason.sidabras@gmail.com
291 Jozko Skrablin <jozko.skrablin@gmail.com>
292 Ben Slavin <benjamin.slavin@gmail.com>
293 SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>
297 Leo Soto <leo.soto@gmail.com>
298 Wiliam Alves de Souza <wiliamsouza83@gmail.com>
299 Don Spaulding <donspauldingii@gmail.com>
300 Bjørn Stabell <bjorn@exoweb.net>
301 Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
302 Vasiliy Stavenko <stavenko@gmail.com>
303 Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
304 Johan C. Stöver <johan@nilling.nl>
306 Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@google.com>
309 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
310 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
311 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
312 Ville Säävuori <http://www.unessa.net/>
313 Tyler Tarabula <tyler.tarabula@gmail.com>
314 Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>
315 Frank Tegtmeyer <fte@fte.to>
317 thebjorn <bp@datakortet.no>
318 Zach Thompson <zthompson47@gmail.com>
320 Deepak Thukral <deep.thukral@gmail.com>
324 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
325 torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
326 Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>
327 tstromberg@google.com
328 Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>
332 I.S. van Oostveen <v.oostveen@idca.nl>
333 viestards.lists@gmail.com
334 George Vilches <gav@thataddress.com>
335 Vlado <vlado@labath.org>
337 wam-djangobug@wamber.net
338 Wang Chun <wangchun@exoweb.net>
339 Filip Wasilewski <filip.wasilewski@gmail.com>
340 Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>
341 Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>
342 James Wheare <django@sparemint.com>
343 charly.wilhelm@gmail.com
344 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
345 Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@gmail.com>
346 Jakub Wiśniowski <restless.being@gmail.com>
347 Maciej Wiśniowski <pigletto@gmail.com>
349 Jason Yan <tailofthesun@gmail.com>
350 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
351 ymasuda@ethercube.com
352 Jarek Zgoda <jarek.zgoda@gmail.com>
355 A big THANK YOU goes to:
357 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
359 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
360 his sage sysadmin advice.
362 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
364 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
366 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.