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 flavio.curella@gmail.com
93 Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
94 John D'Agostino <john.dagostino@gmail.com>
95 dackze+django@gmail.com
96 David Danier <goliath.mailinglist@gmx.de>
97 Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>
98 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
99 dave@thebarproject.com
100 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
103 Max Derkachev <mderk@yandex.ru>
104 Rajesh Dhawan <rajesh.dhawan@gmail.com>
105 Sander Dijkhuis <sander.dijkhuis@gmail.com>
106 Jordan Dimov <s3x3y1@gmail.com>
108 Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
109 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
110 Andrew Durdin <adurdin@gmail.com>
112 Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
114 Nick Efford <nick@efford.org>
117 Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>
118 A. Murat Eren <meren@pardus.org.tr>
119 Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>
121 Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>
122 Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>
123 Szilveszter Farkas <szilveszter.farkas@gmail.com>
125 Dmitri Fedortchenko <zeraien@gmail.com>
126 Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com>
127 Stefane Fermgier <sf@fermigier.com>
128 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
129 Matthew Flanagan <http://wadofstuff.blogspot.com>
130 Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>
131 Vincent Foley <vfoleybourgon@yahoo.ca>
132 Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>
134 Marc Garcia <marc.garcia@accopensys.com>
136 Dimitris Glezos <dimitris@glezos.com>
138 martin.glueck@gmail.com
139 Artyom Gnilov <boobsd@gmail.com>
140 GomoX <gomo@datafull.com>
141 Mario Gonzalez <gonzalemario@gmail.com>
142 pradeep.gowda@gmail.com
143 Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
145 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
146 Thomas Güttler <hv@tbz-pariv.de>
148 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
151 Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>
152 Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>
153 hipertracker@gmail.com
154 Deryck Hodge <http://www.devurandom.org/>
155 Brett Hoerner <bretthoerner@bretthoerner.com>
156 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
157 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
158 Sung-Jin Hong <serialx.net@gmail.com>
159 Richard House <Richard.House@i-logue.com>
160 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
161 Rob Hudson <http://rob.cogit8.org/>
162 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
165 Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
168 Zak Johnson <zakj@nox.cx>
169 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
171 junzhang.jn@gmail.com
172 Antti Kaihola <http://akaihola.blogspot.com/>
173 Nagy Károly <charlie@rendszergazda.com>
174 Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>
175 Ian G. Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
176 Thomas Kerpe <thomas@kerpe.net>
177 Ben Khoo <khoobks@westnet.com.au>
178 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
179 kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
180 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
181 Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
182 Cameron Knight (ckknight)
183 Nena Kojadin <nena@kiberpipa.org>
184 Igor Kolar <ike@email.si>
186 Martin Kosír <martin@martinkosir.net>
187 Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
188 Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
189 krzysiek.pawlik@silvermedia.pl
192 knox <christobzr@gmail.com>
194 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
195 Nick Lane <nick.lane.au@gmail.com>
196 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
197 Paul Lanier <planier@google.com>
198 Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>
199 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
200 Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>
201 Jannis Leidel <jl@websushi.org>
202 Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
204 Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
206 Philip Lindborg <philip.lindborg@gmail.com>
207 msaelices <msaelices@gmail.com>
208 Matt McClanahan <http://mmcc.cx/>
209 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
210 masonsimon+django@gmail.com
212 Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@gmail.com>
213 Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>
214 Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>
215 Marijn Vriens <marijn@metronomo.cl>
217 Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>
219 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
221 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
224 Slawek Mikula <slawek dot mikula at gmail dot com>
227 Andreas Mock <andreas.mock@web.de>
228 Reza Mohammadi <reza@zeerak.ir>
229 Aljosa Mohorovic <aljosa.mohorovic@gmail.com>
230 Ramiro Morales <rm0@gmx.net>
231 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
232 mrmachine <real.human@mrmachine.net>
233 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
234 Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>
236 Gopal Narayanan <gopastro@gmail.com>
237 Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>
238 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
239 Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
240 Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan@mac.com>
241 oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
242 Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
243 pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>
244 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>
245 permonik@mesias.brnonet.cz
246 petr.marhoun@gmail.com
247 pgross@thoughtworks.com
248 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
250 phil.h.smith@gmail.com
252 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
254 Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
256 Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki.pulliainen@gmail.com>
257 Johann Queuniet <johann.queuniet@adh.naellia.eu>
259 Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
260 Amit Ramon <amit.ramon@gmail.com>
261 Philippe Raoult <philippe.raoult@n2nsoft.com>
262 Massimiliano Ravelli <massimiliano.ravelli@gmail.com>
263 Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
266 ricardojbarrios@gmail.com
268 Henrique Romano <onaiort@gmail.com>
270 Brian Rosner <brosner@gmail.com>
271 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
273 Manuel Saelices <msaelices@yaco.es>
274 Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
275 Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
278 Ilya Semenov <semenov@inetss.com>
280 John Shaffer <jshaffer2112@gmail.com>
281 Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
282 jason.sidabras@gmail.com
283 Jozko Skrablin <jozko.skrablin@gmail.com>
284 SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>
288 Leo Soto <leo.soto@gmail.com>
289 Wiliam Alves de Souza <wiliamsouza83@gmail.com>
290 Don Spaulding <donspauldingii@gmail.com>
291 Bjørn Stabell <bjorn@exoweb.net>
292 Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
293 Vasiliy Stavenko <stavenko@gmail.com>
294 Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
296 Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@google.com>
299 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
300 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
301 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
302 Ville Säävuori <http://www.unessa.net/>
303 Tyler Tarabula <tyler.tarabula@gmail.com>
304 Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>
305 Frank Tegtmeyer <fte@fte.to>
307 thebjorn <bp@datakortet.no>
308 Zach Thompson <zthompson47@gmail.com>
310 Deepak Thukral <deep.thukral@gmail.com>
314 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
315 torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
316 Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>
317 tstromberg@google.com
318 Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>
322 viestards.lists@gmail.com
323 George Vilches <gav@thataddress.com>
324 Vlado <vlado@labath.org>
326 wam-djangobug@wamber.net
327 Wang Chun <wangchun@exoweb.net>
328 Filip Wasilewski <filip.wasilewski@gmail.com>
329 Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>
330 Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>
331 James Wheare <django@sparemint.com>
332 charly.wilhelm@gmail.com
333 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
334 Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@gmail.com>
335 Jakub Wiśniowski <restless.being@gmail.com>
336 Maciej Wiśniowski <pigletto@gmail.com>
338 Jason Yan <tailofthesun@gmail.com>
339 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
340 ymasuda@ethercube.com
341 Jarek Zgoda <jarek.zgoda@gmail.com>
344 A big THANK YOU goes to:
346 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
348 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
349 his sage sysadmin advice.
351 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
353 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
355 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.