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