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:
48 David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
49 Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
51 Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>
52 Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
53 Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>
55 Ben <afternoon@uk2.net>
56 Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
58 Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
60 Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>
61 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
63 Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>
64 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
66 Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
68 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
69 Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
70 dackze+django@gmail.com
71 Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>
72 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
73 dave@thebarproject.com
74 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
78 Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
79 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
80 Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
82 Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>
83 Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>
84 Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>
85 Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>
87 Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>
88 Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>
91 martin.glueck@gmail.com
92 Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
94 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
95 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
98 Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>
99 Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>
100 hipertracker@gmail.com
101 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
102 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
103 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
104 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
106 Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
108 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
110 junzhang.jn@gmail.com
111 Antti Kaihola <http://akaihola.blogspot.com/>
112 Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>
113 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
114 kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
115 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
116 Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
117 Cameron Knight (ckknight)
118 Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
119 Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
122 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
123 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
124 Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>
125 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
126 Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>
127 Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
129 Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
132 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
133 masonsimon+django@gmail.com
135 Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>
136 Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>
138 Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>
140 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
142 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
146 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
147 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
148 Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>
150 Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>
151 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
152 Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
153 oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
154 Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
155 pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>
156 pgross@thoughtworks.com
157 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
159 phil.h.smith@gmail.com
161 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
163 Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
165 Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
167 Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
170 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
171 Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
175 Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
176 SmileyChris <smileychris@gmail.com>
179 Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
180 Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
182 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
183 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
184 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
185 Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>
187 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
188 torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
189 Karen Tracey <graybark@bellsouth.net>
190 Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>
193 viestards.lists@gmail.com
195 wam-djangobug@wamber.net
196 Dan Watson <http://theidioteque.net/>
197 Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>
198 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
199 Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@gmail.com>
201 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
202 ymasuda@ethercube.com
205 A big THANK YOU goes to:
207 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
209 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
210 his sage sysadmin advice.
212 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
214 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
216 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.