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://simonwillison.net/>, 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 Ahmad Alhashemi <trans@ahmadh.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>
52 Jeff Anderson <jefferya@programmerq.net>
55 Fabrice Aneche <akh@nobugware.com>
57 Florian Apolloner <florian@apolloner.eu>
58 arien <regexbot@gmail.com>
59 David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
60 atlithorn <atlithorn@gmail.com>
61 Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson <jokullsolberg@gmail.com>
62 Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
64 David Avsajanishvili <avsd05@gmail.com>
65 Mike Axiak <axiak@mit.edu>
66 Niran Babalola <niran@niran.org>
67 Morten Bagai <m@bagai.com>
68 Mikaël Barbero <mikael.barbero nospam at nospam free.fr>
70 Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>
73 Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
74 Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>
75 Chris Bennett <chrisrbennett@yahoo.com>
78 Arvis Bickovskis <viestards.lists@gmail.com>
79 Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
81 David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
82 Matt Boersma <ogghead@gmail.com>
84 Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
87 Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>
88 Keith Bussell <kbussell@gmail.com>
89 Chris Cahoon <chris.cahoon@gmail.com>
90 Juan Manuel Caicedo <juan.manuel.caicedo@gmail.com>
91 Trevor Caira <trevor@caira.com>
92 Ricardo Javier Cárdenes Medina <ricardo.cardenes@gmail.com>
93 Jeremy Carbaugh <jcarbaugh@gmail.com>
94 Graham Carlyle <graham.carlyle@maplecroft.net>
95 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
98 Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>
99 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
101 Sengtha Chay <sengtha@e-khmer.com>
102 ivan.chelubeev@gmail.com
103 Bryan Chow <bryan at verdjn dot com>
104 Antonis Christofides <anthony@itia.ntua.gr>
105 Michal Chruszcz <troll@pld-linux.org>
106 Can Burak Çilingir <canburak@cs.bilgi.edu.tr>
107 Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
108 Russell Cloran <russell@rucus.net>
110 crankycoder@gmail.com
111 Paul Collier <paul@paul-collier.com>
112 Pete Crosier <pete.crosier@gmail.com>
113 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
114 Leah Culver <leah@pownce.com>
115 flavio.curella@gmail.com
116 Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
117 John D'Agostino <john.dagostino@gmail.com>
118 dackze+django@gmail.com
119 Mihai Damian <yang_damian@yahoo.com>
120 David Danier <goliath.mailinglist@gmx.de>
121 Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>
122 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
123 dave@thebarproject.com
125 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
128 Max Derkachev <mderk@yandex.ru>
129 Rajesh Dhawan <rajesh.dhawan@gmail.com>
130 Sander Dijkhuis <sander.dijkhuis@gmail.com>
131 Jordan Dimov <s3x3y1@gmail.com>
133 dready <wil@mojipage.com>
134 Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
135 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
136 Andrew Durdin <adurdin@gmail.com>
138 Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
140 Nick Efford <nick@efford.org>
143 Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>
144 A. Murat Eren <meren@pardus.org.tr>
145 Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>
147 Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>
148 Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>
149 Szilveszter Farkas <szilveszter.farkas@gmail.com>
151 fdr <drfarina@gmail.com>
152 Dmitri Fedortchenko <zeraien@gmail.com>
153 Jonathan Feignberg <jdf@pobox.com>
154 Liang Feng <hutuworm@gmail.com>
155 Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com>
156 Stefane Fermgier <sf@fermigier.com>
157 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
158 J. Pablo Fernandez <pupeno@pupeno.com>
160 Matthew Flanagan <http://wadofstuff.blogspot.com>
161 Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>
162 Eric Florenzano <floguy@gmail.com>
163 Vincent Foley <vfoleybourgon@yahoo.ca>
164 Rudolph Froger <rfroger@estrate.nl>
165 Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>
167 Marc Garcia <marc.garcia@accopensys.com>
168 Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
169 Andy Gayton <andy-django@thecablelounge.com>
171 Dimitris Glezos <dimitris@glezos.com>
173 martin.glueck@gmail.com
174 Artyom Gnilov <boobsd@gmail.com>
175 Ben Godfrey <http://aftnn.org>
176 GomoX <gomo@datafull.com>
177 Guilherme Mesquita Gondim <semente@taurinus.org>
178 Mario Gonzalez <gonzalemario@gmail.com>
179 pradeep.gowda@gmail.com
180 Collin Grady <collin@collingrady.com>
181 Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
183 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
184 Thomas Güttler <hv@tbz-pariv.de>
185 Horst Gutmann <zerok@zerokspot.com>
188 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
191 Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>
192 Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>
193 Mikko Hellsing <mikko@sorl.net>
194 Sebastian Hillig <sebastian.hillig@gmail.com>
195 hipertracker@gmail.com
196 Deryck Hodge <http://www.devurandom.org/>
197 Brett Hoerner <bretthoerner@bretthoerner.com>
198 Eric Holscher <http://ericholscher.com>
199 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
200 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
201 Sung-Jin Hong <serialx.net@gmail.com>
202 Richard House <Richard.House@i-logue.com>
203 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
204 John Huddleston <huddlej@wwu.edu>
205 Rob Hudson <http://rob.cogit8.org/>
206 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
208 Ibon <ibonso@gmail.com>
210 Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
214 Zak Johnson <zakj@nox.cx>
215 Nis Jørgensen <nis@superlativ.dk>
216 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
219 junzhang.jn@gmail.com
220 Grigory Fateyev <greg@dial.com.ru>
221 Antti Kaihola <http://akaihola.blogspot.com/>
222 Bahadır Kandemir <bahadir@pardus.org.tr>
223 Karderio <karderio@gmail.com>
224 Nagy Károly <charlie@rendszergazda.com>
225 Erik Karulf <erik@karulf.com>
226 Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>
227 Ian G. Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
228 Thomas Kerpe <thomas@kerpe.net>
229 Ossama M. Khayat <okhayat@yahoo.com>
230 Ben Khoo <khoobks@westnet.com.au>
231 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
232 kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
233 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
234 Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
235 Cameron Knight (ckknight)
236 Nena Kojadin <nena@kiberpipa.org>
237 Igor Kolar <ike@email.si>
239 Martin Kosír <martin@martinkosir.net>
240 Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
241 Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
242 krzysiek.pawlik@silvermedia.pl
245 knox <christobzr@gmail.com>
248 Panos Laganakos <panos.laganakos@gmail.com>
249 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
250 Nick Lane <nick.lane.au@gmail.com>
251 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
252 Paul Lanier <planier@google.com>
253 Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>
254 Finn Gruwier Larsen <finn@gruwier.dk>
256 Rune Rønde Laursen <runerl@skjoldhoej.dk>
257 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
259 Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>
260 Jannis Leidel <jl@websushi.org>
261 Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
263 Piotr Lewandowski <django@icomputing.pl>
264 Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
266 Philip Lindborg <philip.lindborg@gmail.com>
267 Simon Litchfield <simon@quo.com.au>
268 Daniel Lindsley <polarcowz@gmail.com>
269 Trey Long <trey@ktrl.com>
270 msaelices <msaelices@gmail.com>
271 Matt McClanahan <http://mmcc.cx/>
272 Frantisek Malina <vizualbod@vizualbod.com>
273 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
274 masonsimon+django@gmail.com
276 Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@gmail.com>
277 Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>
278 Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>
279 Marijn Vriens <marijn@metronomo.cl>
281 Orestis Markou <orestis@orestis.gr>
282 Takashi Matsuo <matsuo.takashi@gmail.com>
283 Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>
285 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
286 Kevin McConnell <kevin.mcconnell@gmail.com>
289 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
291 Slawek Mikula <slawek dot mikula at gmail dot com>
294 Andreas Mock <andreas.mock@web.de>
295 Reza Mohammadi <reza@zeerak.ir>
296 Aljosa Mohorovic <aljosa.mohorovic@gmail.com>
297 Ramiro Morales <rm0@gmx.net>
298 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
299 mrmachine <real.human@mrmachine.net>
300 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
303 Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>
305 Doug Napoleone <doug@dougma.com>
306 Gopal Narayanan <gopastro@gmail.com>
307 Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>
308 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
309 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
310 Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
311 Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan@mac.com>
312 oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
313 oggy <ognjen.maric@gmail.com>
314 Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
315 Carlos Eduardo de Paula <carlosedp@gmail.com>
316 pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>
317 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>
318 permonik@mesias.brnonet.cz
320 pgross@thoughtworks.com
321 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
322 Julien Phalip <http://www.julienphalip.com>
324 phil.h.smith@gmail.com
326 Michael Placentra II <someone@michaelplacentra2.net>
327 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
329 Mihai Preda <mihai_preda@yahoo.com>
330 Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
332 Matthias Pronk <django@masida.nl>
333 Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki.pulliainen@gmail.com>
334 Thejaswi Puthraya <thejaswi.puthraya@gmail.com>
335 Johann Queuniet <johann.queuniet@adh.naellia.eu>
337 Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
338 Laurent Rahuel <laurent.rahuel@gmail.com>
339 Amit Ramon <amit.ramon@gmail.com>
340 Philippe Raoult <philippe.raoult@n2nsoft.com>
341 Massimiliano Ravelli <massimiliano.ravelli@gmail.com>
342 Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
344 David Reynolds <david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk>
346 ricardojbarrios@gmail.com
349 Henrique Romano <onaiort@gmail.com>
351 Daniel Roseman <http://roseman.org.uk/>
352 Brian Rosner <brosner@gmail.com>
353 Rozza <ross.lawley@gmail.com>
354 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
356 Manuel Saelices <msaelices@yaco.es>
357 Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
358 Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
361 Ilya Semenov <semenov@inetss.com>
363 John Shaffer <jshaffer2112@gmail.com>
364 Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
366 jason.sidabras@gmail.com
367 Brenton Simpson <http://theillustratedlife.com>
368 Jozko Skrablin <jozko.skrablin@gmail.com>
369 Ben Slavin <benjamin.slavin@gmail.com>
370 sloonz <simon.lipp@insa-lyon.fr>
371 SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>
372 Warren Smith <warren@wandrsmith.net>
376 Leo Soto <leo.soto@gmail.com>
377 Wiliam Alves de Souza <wiliamsouza83@gmail.com>
378 Don Spaulding <donspauldingii@gmail.com>
379 Bjørn Stabell <bjorn@exoweb.net>
380 Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
381 starrynight <cmorgh@gmail.com>
382 Vasiliy Stavenko <stavenko@gmail.com>
383 Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
384 Johan C. Stöver <johan@nilling.nl>
386 Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@google.com>
389 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
390 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
391 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
392 Ville Säävuori <http://www.unessa.net/>
393 Mart Sõmermaa <http://mrts.pri.ee/>
394 Christian Tanzer <tanzer@swing.co.at>
395 Tyler Tarabula <tyler.tarabula@gmail.com>
396 Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>
397 Frank Tegtmeyer <fte@fte.to>
399 thebjorn <bp@datakortet.no>
400 Zach Thompson <zthompson47@gmail.com>
402 Deepak Thukral <deep.thukral@gmail.com>
406 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
407 torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
408 Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>
409 tstromberg@google.com
410 Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>
412 David Tulig <david.tulig@gmail.com>
413 Amit Upadhyay <http://www.amitu.com/blog/>
415 I.S. van Oostveen <v.oostveen@idca.nl>
416 viestards.lists@gmail.com
417 George Vilches <gav@thataddress.com>
418 Vlado <vlado@labath.org>
420 Chris Wagner <cw264701@ohio.edu>
421 wam-djangobug@wamber.net
422 Wang Chun <wangchun@exoweb.net>
423 Filip Wasilewski <filip.wasilewski@gmail.com>
424 Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>
425 Joel Watts <joel@joelwatts.com>
426 Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>
427 James Wheare <django@sparemint.com>
428 Mike Wiacek <mjwiacek@google.com>
429 charly.wilhelm@gmail.com
430 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
431 Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@gmail.com>
432 Jakub Wilk <ubanus@users.sf.net>
433 Jakub Wiśniowski <restless.being@gmail.com>
434 Maciej Wiśniowski <pigletto@gmail.com>
436 Jason Yan <tailofthesun@gmail.com>
437 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
438 ymasuda@ethercube.com
439 Jarek Zgoda <jarek.zgoda@gmail.com>
442 A big THANK YOU goes to:
444 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
446 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
447 his sage sysadmin advice.
449 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
451 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
453 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.