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>
41 Antonio Cavedoni <http://cavedoni.com/>
43 Amit Chakradeo <http://amit.chakradeo.net/>
44 Matt Croydon <http://www.postneo.com/>
45 Jonathan Daugherty (cygnus) <http://www.cprogrammer.org/>
46 Jason Davies (Esaj) <http://www.jasondavies.com/>
48 Jeremy Dunck <http://dunck.us/>
51 Espen Grindhaug <http://grindhaug.org/>
54 Ian Holsman <http://feh.holsman.net/>
55 Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
56 Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
57 Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
58 Michael Josephson <http://www.sdjournal.com/>
59 Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy@iinet.net.au>
60 Garth Kidd <http://www.deadlybloodyserious.com/>
61 Sune Kirkeby <http://ibofobi.dk/>
62 lakin.wecker@gmail.com
63 Stuart Langridge <http://www.kryogenix.org/>
64 Eugene Lazutkin <http://lazutkin.com/blog/>
66 Martin Maney <http://www.chipy.org/Martin_Maney>
67 Maniac <http://www.softwaremaniacs.org/>
72 Jason McBrayer <http://www.carcosa.net/jason/>
73 michael.mcewan@gmail.com
75 Eric Moritz <http://eric.themoritzfamily.com/>
76 Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
78 Sam Newman <http://www.magpiebrain.com/>
79 pgross@thoughtworks.com
80 phaedo <http://phaedo.cx/>
81 Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
83 Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
86 Radek Švarz <http://www.svarz.cz/translate/>
87 Swaroop C H <http://www.swaroopch.info>
88 Aaron Swartz <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
90 Joe Topjian <http://joe.terrarum.net/geek/code/python/django/>
93 Rachel Willmer <http://www.willmer.com/kb/>
95 ye7cakf02@sneakemail.com
97 A big THANK YOU goes to:
99 Rob Curley and Ralph Gage for letting us open-source Django.
101 Frank Wiles for making excellent arguments for open-sourcing, and for
102 his sage sysadmin advice.
104 Ian Bicking for convincing Adrian to ditch code generation.
106 Mark Pilgrim for diveintopython.org.
108 Guido van Rossum for creating Python.