1 Django was originally created in late 2003 at World Online, the Web division
2 of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas.
5 The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):
7 Adrian Holovaty <http://www.holovaty.com/>, who originally created Django with
8 Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob.
10 Simon Willison <http://simon.incutio.com/>, who originally created Django with
11 Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently
12 helps from the sidelines.
14 Jacob Kaplan-Moss <http://www.jacobian.org/>, who joined the team shortly
15 before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian.
17 Wilson Miner <http://www.wilsonminer.com/>, who designed Django's admin
18 interface, pretty error pages, official Web site (djangoproject.com) and has
19 made many other contributions.
21 Georg "Hugo" Bauer <http://hugo.muensterland.org/>, who added
22 internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton
23 of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
25 Robert Wittams <http://robert.wittams.com/>, who majorly refactored the Django
26 admin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of excellent
27 tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.
30 And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS --
31 people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped
32 answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
35 David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
37 Paul Bissex <http://e-scribe.com/>
39 Andrew Brehaut <http://brehaut.net/blog>
40 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
41 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
42 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
43 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
46 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
48 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
49 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
50 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
51 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
52 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
53 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
54 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
55 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
56 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
57 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
58 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
59 Maniac <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
64 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
66 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
67 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
69 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
70 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
71 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
75 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
76 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
78 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
81 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
83 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
86 A big THANK YOU goes to:
88 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
90 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
91 his sage sysadmin advice.
93 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
95 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
97 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.