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):
33 More information on the main contributors to Django can be found in
34 docs/internals/committers.txt.
36 And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS --
37 people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped
38 answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
40 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
42 Mathieu Agopian <mathieu.agopian@gmail.com>
44 alang@bright-green.com
45 A S Alam <aalam@users.sf.net>
46 Andi Albrecht <albrecht.andi@gmail.com>
47 Marty Alchin <gulopine@gamemusic.org>
48 Ahmad Alhashemi <trans@ahmadh.com>
51 Daniel Alves Barbosa de Oliveira Vaz <danielvaz@gmail.com>
52 AgarFu <heaven@croasanaso.sytes.net>
53 Dagur Páll Ammendrup <dagurp@gmail.com>
54 Collin Anderson <cmawebsite@gmail.com>
55 Jeff Anderson <jefferya@programmerq.net>
56 Marian Andre <django@andre.sk>
60 Fabrice Aneche <akh@nobugware.com>
62 Florian Apolloner <florian@apolloner.eu>
63 arien <regexbot@gmail.com>
64 David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
65 atlithorn <atlithorn@gmail.com>
66 Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson <jokullsolberg@gmail.com>
67 Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
69 David Avsajanishvili <avsd05@gmail.com>
70 Mike Axiak <axiak@mit.edu>
71 Niran Babalola <niran@niran.org>
72 Vitaly Babiy <vbabiy86@gmail.com>
73 Morten Bagai <m@bagai.com>
74 Jeff Balogh <jbalogh@mozilla.com>
75 Mikaël Barbero <mikael.barbero nospam at nospam free.fr>
76 Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>
77 Scott Barr <scott@divisionbyzero.com.au>
79 Ned Batchelder <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/>
82 Brian Beck <http://blog.brianbeck.com/>
83 Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
84 Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>
85 Chris Bennett <chrisrbennett@yahoo.com>
87 Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com>
89 Arvis Bickovskis <viestards.lists@gmail.com>
90 Natalia Bidart <nataliabidart@gmail.com>
91 Mark Biggers <biggers@utsl.com>
92 Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
94 David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
95 Matt Boersma <matt@sprout.org>
98 Nate Bragg <jonathan.bragg@alum.rpi.edu>
100 Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
101 David Brenneman <http://davidbrenneman.com>
102 Anthony Briggs <anthony.briggs@gmail.com>
103 Orne Brocaar <http://brocaar.com/>
107 Jonathan Buchanan <jonathan.buchanan@gmail.com>
108 Keith Bussell <kbussell@gmail.com>
110 Chris Cahoon <chris.cahoon@gmail.com>
111 Juan Manuel Caicedo <juan.manuel.caicedo@gmail.com>
112 Trevor Caira <trevor@caira.com>
113 Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
114 Ricardo Javier Cárdenes Medina <ricardo.cardenes@gmail.com>
115 Jeremy Carbaugh <jcarbaugh@gmail.com>
116 Graham Carlyle <graham.carlyle@maplecroft.net>
117 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
118 cedric@terramater.net
119 Chris Chamberlin <dja@cdc.msbx.net>
120 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
122 Kowito Charoenratchatabhan <kowito@felspar.com>
123 Sengtha Chay <sengtha@e-khmer.com>
124 ivan.chelubeev@gmail.com
125 Bryan Chow <bryan at verdjn dot com>
126 Tom Christie <tom@tomchristie.com>
127 Antonis Christofides <anthony@itia.ntua.gr>
128 Michal Chruszcz <troll@pld-linux.org>
129 Can Burak Çilingir <canburak@cs.bilgi.edu.tr>
130 Ian Clelland <clelland@gmail.com>
131 Travis Cline <travis.cline@gmail.com>
132 Russell Cloran <russell@rucus.net>
134 crankycoder@gmail.com
135 Paul Collier <paul@paul-collier.com>
137 Pete Crosier <pete.crosier@gmail.com>
138 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
139 Leah Culver <leah.culver@gmail.com>
140 flavio.curella@gmail.com
141 Jure Cuhalev <gandalf@owca.info>
142 John D'Agostino <john.dagostino@gmail.com>
143 dackze+django@gmail.com
144 Jim Dalton <jim.dalton@gmail.com>
145 Mihai Damian <yang_damian@yahoo.com>
146 David Danier <david.danier@team23.de>
147 Dirk Datzert <dummy@habmalnefrage.de>
148 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
149 dave@thebarproject.com
151 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
152 Richard Davies <richard.davies@elastichosts.com>
156 Max Derkachev <mderk@yandex.ru>
157 Rajesh Dhawan <rajesh.dhawan@gmail.com>
158 Sander Dijkhuis <sander.dijkhuis@gmail.com>
159 Jordan Dimov <s3x3y1@gmail.com>
162 dready <wil@mojipage.com>
163 Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
164 Daniel Duan <DaNmarner@gmail.com>
165 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
166 Andrew Durdin <adurdin@gmail.com>
168 Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
169 Alexander Dutton <dev@alexdutton.co.uk>
170 J. Clifford Dyer <jcd@sdf.lonestar.org>
172 Nick Efford <nick@efford.org>
176 Enrico <rico.bl@gmail.com>
177 A. Murat Eren <meren@pardus.org.tr>
178 Ludvig Ericson <ludvig.ericson@gmail.com>
180 Tomáš Ehrlich <tomas.ehrlich@gmail.com>
181 Dirk Eschler <dirk.eschler@gmx.net>
182 Bernhard Essl <me@bernhardessl.com>
183 Dan Fairs <dan@fezconsulting.com>
184 Marc Fargas <telenieko@telenieko.com>
185 Szilveszter Farkas <szilveszter.farkas@gmail.com>
186 Grigory Fateyev <greg@dial.com.ru>
188 fdr <drfarina@gmail.com>
189 Dmitri Fedortchenko <zeraien@gmail.com>
190 Jonathan Feignberg <jdf@pobox.com>
191 Liang Feng <hutuworm@gmail.com>
192 Bill Fenner <fenner@gmail.com>
193 Stefane Fermgier <sf@fermigier.com>
194 J. Pablo Fernandez <pupeno@pupeno.com>
196 Ben Firshman <ben@firshman.co.uk>
197 Matthew Flanagan <http://wadofstuff.blogspot.com>
198 Eric Floehr <eric@intellovations.com>
199 Eric Florenzano <floguy@gmail.com>
200 Vincent Foley <vfoleybourgon@yahoo.ca>
202 Rudolph Froger <rfroger@estrate.nl>
203 Jorge Gajon <gajon@gajon.org>
205 Marc Garcia <marc.garcia@accopensys.com>
206 Andy Gayton <andy-django@thecablelounge.com>
207 geber@datacollect.com
208 Jeffrey Gelens <jeffrey@gelens.org>
210 Joshua Ginsberg <jag@flowtheory.net>
211 Dimitris Glezos <dimitris@glezos.com>
213 martin.glueck@gmail.com
214 Artyom Gnilov <boobsd@gmail.com>
215 Ben Godfrey <http://aftnn.org>
216 GomoX <gomo@datafull.com>
217 Guilherme Mesquita Gondim <semente@taurinus.org>
218 Mario Gonzalez <gonzalemario@gmail.com>
219 David Gouldin <dgouldin@gmail.com>
220 pradeep.gowda@gmail.com
221 Collin Grady <collin@collingrady.com>
222 Gabriel Grant <g@briel.ca>
223 Simon Greenhill <dev@simon.net.nz>
225 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
227 Thomas Güttler <hv@tbz-pariv.de>
228 Horst Gutmann <zerok@zerokspot.com>
229 Antti Haapala <antti@industrialwebandmagic.com>
230 Scot Hacker <shacker@birdhouse.org>
233 Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
235 Ronny Haryanto <http://ronny.haryan.to/>
237 Kent Hauser <kent@khauser.net>
238 Joe Heck <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/>
239 Joel Heenan <joelh-django@planetjoel.com>
240 Mikko Hellsing <mikko@sorl.net>
241 Sebastian Hillig <sebastian.hillig@gmail.com>
242 hipertracker@gmail.com
243 Deryck Hodge <http://www.devurandom.org/>
244 Brett Hoerner <bretthoerner@bretthoerner.com>
245 Justin Myles Holmes <justin@slashrootcafe.com>
246 Eric Holscher <http://ericholscher.com>
247 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
248 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
249 Sung-Jin Hong <serialx.net@gmail.com>
250 Leo "hylje" Honkanen <sealage@gmail.com>
251 Matt Hoskins <skaffenuk@googlemail.com>
252 Tareque Hossain <http://www.codexn.com>
253 Richard House <Richard.House@i-logue.com>
254 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
255 John Huddleston <huddlej@wwu.edu>
256 Rob Hudson <http://rob.cogit8.org/>
257 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
258 Gabriel Hurley <gabriel@strikeawe.com>
260 Ibon <ibonso@gmail.com>
262 Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
263 Stephan Jaekel <steph@rdev.info>
267 Dmitry Jemerov <intelliyole@gmail.com>
268 jhenry <jhenry@theonion.com>
270 Zak Johnson <zakj@nox.cx>
271 Nis Jørgensen <nis@superlativ.dk>
272 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
274 junzhang.jn@gmail.com
275 Xia Kai <http://blog.xiaket.org/>
277 Antti Kaihola <http://djangopeople.net/akaihola/>
279 Bahadır Kandemir <bahadir@pardus.org.tr>
280 Karderio <karderio@gmail.com>
281 Nagy Károly <charlie@rendszergazda.com>
282 George Karpenkov <george@metaworld.ru>
283 Erik Karulf <erik@karulf.com>
284 Ben Dean Kawamura <ben.dean.kawamura@gmail.com>
285 Ian G. Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
286 Niall Kelly <duke.sam.vimes@gmail.com>
287 Ryan Kelly <ryan@rfk.id.au>
288 Thomas Kerpe <thomas@kerpe.net>
289 Wiley Kestner <wiley.kestner@gmail.com>
290 Ossama M. Khayat <okhayat@yahoo.com>
291 Ben Khoo <khoobks@westnet.com.au>
292 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
293 kilian <kilian.cavalotti@lip6.fr>
294 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
295 Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
296 Cameron Knight (ckknight)
297 Nena Kojadin <nena@kiberpipa.org>
298 Igor Kolar <ike@email.si>
299 Tomáš Kopeček <permonik@m6.cz>
301 Mikhail Korobov <kmike84@googlemail.com>
302 Martin Kosír <martin@martinkosir.net>
303 Arthur Koziel <http://arthurkoziel.com>
304 Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
305 Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
306 krzysiek.pawlik@silvermedia.pl
309 knox <christobzr@gmail.com>
311 Kevin Kubasik <kevin@kubasik.net>
313 Denis Kuzmichyov <kuzmichyov@gmail.com>
314 Panos Laganakos <panos.laganakos@gmail.com>
315 Nick Lane <nick.lane.au@gmail.com>
316 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
317 Paul Lanier <planier@google.com>
318 David Larlet <http://david.larlet.fr>
319 Nicolas Lara <nicolaslara@gmail.com>
320 Nicola Larosa <nico@teknico.net>
321 Finn Gruwier Larsen <finn@gruwier.dk>
323 Rune Rønde Laursen <runerl@skjoldhoej.dk>
324 Mark Lavin <markdlavin@gmail.com>
325 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
327 Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru@gmail.com>
328 Tai Lee <real.human@mrmachine.net>
329 Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
331 Piotr Lewandowski <piotr.lewandowski@gmail.com>
332 Charlie Leifer <coleifer@gmail.com>
333 Justin Lilly <justinlilly@gmail.com>
334 Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
336 Philip Lindborg <philip.lindborg@gmail.com>
337 Simon Litchfield <simon@quo.com.au>
338 Daniel Lindsley <daniel@toastdriven.com>
339 Trey Long <trey@ktrl.com>
340 Laurent Luce <http://www.laurentluce.com>
341 Martin Mahner <http://www.mahner.org/>
342 Matt McClanahan <http://mmcc.cx/>
345 Frantisek Malina <vizualbod@vizualbod.com>
346 Mike Malone <mjmalone@gmail.com>
347 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
348 masonsimon+django@gmail.com
350 Petr Marhoun <petr.marhoun@gmail.com>
351 Petar Marić <http://www.petarmaric.com/>
352 Nuno Mariz <nmariz@gmail.com>
354 Orestis Markou <orestis@orestis.gr>
355 Andrés Torres Marroquín <andres.torres.marroquin@gmail.com>
356 Takashi Matsuo <matsuo.takashi@gmail.com>
357 Zlatko Mašek <zlatko.masek@gmail.com>
358 Yasushi Masuda <whosaysni@gmail.com>
360 Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
361 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
362 Kevin McConnell <kevin.mcconnell@gmail.com>
364 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
365 Paul McLanahan <paul@mclanahan.net>
366 Tobias McNulty <http://www.caktusgroup.com/blog>
370 Slawek Mikula <slawek dot mikula at gmail dot com>
371 Shawn Milochik <shawn@milochik.com>
373 Taylor Mitchell <taylor.mitchell@gmail.com>
375 Andreas Mock <andreas.mock@web.de>
376 Reza Mohammadi <reza@zeerak.ir>
377 Aljosa Mohorovic <aljosa.mohorovic@gmail.com>
378 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
379 msaelices <msaelices@gmail.com>
380 Gregor Müllegger <gregor@muellegger.de>
381 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
384 Robert Myers <myer0052@gmail.com>
385 Aaron T. Myers <atmyers@gmail.com>
386 Alexander Myodov <alex@myodov.com>
387 Doug Napoleone <doug@dougma.com>
388 Gopal Narayanan <gopastro@gmail.com>
389 Fraser Nevett <mail@nevett.org>
390 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
391 Ryan Niemeyer <https://profiles.google.com/ryan.niemeyer/about>
392 Filip Noetzel <http://filip.noetzel.co.uk/>
393 Afonso Fernández Nogueira <fonzzo.django@gmail.com>
394 Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@google.com>
395 Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan@mac.com>
396 Selwin Ong <selwin@ui.co.id>
397 Gerardo Orozco <gerardo.orozco.mosqueda@gmail.com>
398 Christian Oudard <christian.oudard@gmail.com>
399 oggie rob <oz.robharvey@gmail.com>
400 oggy <ognjen.maric@gmail.com>
401 Jay Parlar <parlar@gmail.com>
402 Carlos Eduardo de Paula <carlosedp@gmail.com>
403 John Paulett <john@paulett.org>
404 pavithran s <pavithran.s@gmail.com>
405 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>
406 Andreas Pelme <andreas@pelme.se>
407 permonik@mesias.brnonet.cz
409 pgross@thoughtworks.com
410 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
412 phil.h.smith@gmail.com
414 Michael Placentra II <someone@michaelplacentra2.net>
416 Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
417 Dan Poirier <poirier@pobox.com>
419 Ross Poulton <ross@rossp.org>
420 Mihai Preda <mihai_preda@yahoo.com>
421 Matthias Pronk <django@masida.nl>
422 Jyrki Pulliainen <jyrki.pulliainen@gmail.com>
423 Thejaswi Puthraya <thejaswi.puthraya@gmail.com>
424 Johann Queuniet <johann.queuniet@adh.naellia.eu>
426 Michael Radziej <mir@noris.de>
427 Laurent Rahuel <laurent.rahuel@gmail.com>
428 Stéphane Raimbault <stephane.raimbault@gmail.com>
430 Amit Ramon <amit.ramon@gmail.com>
431 Philippe Raoult <philippe.raoult@n2nsoft.com>
432 Massimiliano Ravelli <massimiliano.ravelli@gmail.com>
433 Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
434 Łukasz Rekucki <lrekucki@gmail.com>
436 Marc Remolt <m.remolt@webmasters.de>
437 Bruno Renié <buburno@gmail.com>
438 David Reynolds <david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk>
440 ricardojbarrios@gmail.com
443 Alex Robbins <alexander.j.robbins@gmail.com>
444 Henrique Romano <onaiort@gmail.com>
446 Daniel Roseman <http://roseman.org.uk/>
447 Rozza <ross.lawley@gmail.com>
448 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
450 Gonzalo Saavedra <gonzalosaavedra@gmail.com>
451 Manuel Saelices <msaelices@yaco.es>
452 Ivan Sagalaev (Maniac) <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
453 Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
454 Bartolome Sanchez Salado <i42sasab@uco.es>
456 Tim Saylor <tim.saylor@gmail.com>
457 Massimo Scamarcia <massimo.scamarcia@gmail.com>
458 Paulo Scardine <paulo@scardine.com.br>
463 Ilya Semenov <semenov@inetss.com>
464 Aleksandra Sendecka <asendecka@hauru.eu>
466 John Shaffer <jshaffer2112@gmail.com>
467 Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>
469 jason.sidabras@gmail.com
470 Mikołaj Siedlarek <mikolaj.siedlarek@gmail.com>
471 Brenton Simpson <http://theillustratedlife.com>
472 Jozko Skrablin <jozko.skrablin@gmail.com>
473 Ben Slavin <benjamin.slavin@gmail.com>
474 sloonz <simon.lipp@insa-lyon.fr>
475 Paul Smith <blinkylights23@gmail.com>
476 Steven L. Smith (fvox13) <steven@stevenlsmith.com>
477 Warren Smith <warren@wandrsmith.net>
481 Leo Soto <leo.soto@gmail.com>
482 Wiliam Alves de Souza <wiliamsouza83@gmail.com>
483 Don Spaulding <donspauldingii@gmail.com>
484 Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy@gmail.com>
485 Bjørn Stabell <bjorn@exoweb.net>
486 Georgi Stanojevski <glisha@gmail.com>
487 starrynight <cmorgh@gmail.com>
488 Vasiliy Stavenko <stavenko@gmail.com>
489 Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
490 Johan C. Stöver <johan@nilling.nl>
491 Nowell Strite <http://nowell.strite.org/>
492 Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@google.com>
495 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
496 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
497 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
498 Ville Säävuori <http://www.unessa.net/>
499 Mart Sõmermaa <http://mrts.pri.ee/>
500 Christian Tanzer <tanzer@swing.co.at>
501 Tyler Tarabula <tyler.tarabula@gmail.com>
502 Tyson Tate <tyson@fallingbullets.com>
503 Aryeh Leib Taurog <http://www.aryehleib.com/>
504 Frank Tegtmeyer <fte@fte.to>
505 Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
506 Terry Huang <terryh.tp@gmail.com>
507 Travis Terry <tdterry7@gmail.com>
508 thebjorn <bp@datakortet.no>
509 Zach Thompson <zthompson47@gmail.com>
510 Michael Thornhill <michael.thornhill@gmail.com>
511 Deepak Thukral <deep.thukral@gmail.com>
515 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
516 torne-django@wolfpuppy.org.uk
517 Jeff Triplett <jeff.triplett@gmail.com>
518 tstromberg@google.com
519 Makoto Tsuyuki <mtsuyuki@gmail.com>
521 David Tulig <david.tulig@gmail.com>
522 Justine Tunney <jtunney@lobstertech.com>
523 Amit Upadhyay <http://www.amitu.com/blog/>
527 I.S. van Oostveen <v.oostveen@idca.nl>
528 viestards.lists@gmail.com
529 George Vilches <gav@thataddress.com>
530 Vlado <vlado@labath.org>
531 Zachary Voase <zacharyvoase@gmail.com>
532 Marijn Vriens <marijn@metronomo.cl>
534 Chris Wagner <cw264701@ohio.edu>
535 Rick Wagner <rwagner@physics.ucsd.edu>
536 wam-djangobug@wamber.net
537 Wang Chun <wangchun@exoweb.net>
538 Filip Wasilewski <filip.wasilewski@gmail.com>
539 Dan Watson <http://danwatson.net/>
540 Joel Watts <joel@joelwatts.com>
541 Lakin Wecker <lakin@structuredabstraction.com>
542 Chris Wesseling <Chris.Wesseling@cwi.nl>
543 Benjamin Wohlwend <piquadrat@gmail.com>
544 James Wheare <django@sparemint.com>
545 Mike Wiacek <mjwiacek@google.com>
547 charly.wilhelm@gmail.com
548 Derek Willis <http://blog.thescoop.org/>
549 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
550 Jakub Wilk <ubanus@users.sf.net>
551 Jakub Wiśniowski <restless.being@gmail.com>
552 Maciej Wiśniowski <pigletto@gmail.com>
555 Jason Yan <tailofthesun@gmail.com>
556 Lars Yencken <lars.yencken@gmail.com>
557 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
558 ymasuda@ethercube.com
559 Jesse Young <adunar@gmail.com>
560 Mykola Zamkovoi <nickzam@gmail.com>
562 Gasper Zejn <zejn@kiberpipa.org>
563 Jarek Zgoda <jarek.zgoda@gmail.com>
566 A big THANK YOU goes to:
568 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
570 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
571 his sage sysadmin advice.
573 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
575 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org. (RIP!)
577 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.